`Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,
They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.
Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.
`Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen; ears they have to hear, and they have not heard; for a rebellious house `are' they.
And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?
`And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,
according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,