To this day they do according to the former custom; they do not fear Jehovah, and do not do according to their statutes, and according to their ordinances, and according to the Law, and according to the commandment that Jehovah commanded the sons of Jacob, on whom He set His name, Israel.
And it happened, these nations feared Jehovah, yet they served their graven images, both their sons and their sons’ sons. As their fathers did, they are doing to this day.
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but they do not see; ears are to them to hear, but they do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.
And I defiled them by their own gifts, by making all the first-born to pass through the fire, so that I might waste them, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
And He said, To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables, that seeing they might not see, and hearing, they might not understand. Isa. 6:9