(According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes so that they would not see, and ears so that they would not hear;) until this day.
To this day they do according to the former manners: they do not fear the LORD, neither do they according to their statutes, or according to their ordinances, or according to the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
So these nations feared the LORD, and served their sculptured images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they until this day.
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
And I polluted them in their own gifts to their idols, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.