Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.(A)

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But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.(A)

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10 For the Lord has poured out on you
an overwhelming urge to[a] sleep;(A)
He has shut your eyes—the prophets,
and covered your heads—the seers.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:10 Lit you a spirit of

10 The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:(A)
    He has sealed your eyes(B) (the prophets);(C)
    he has covered your heads (the seers).(D)

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13 For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see,(A) and hearing they do not listen or understand.(B) 14 Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:

You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.(C)

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13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.(A)

14 In them is fulfilled(B) the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

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