¹⁷ Why, Lord, do you make us wander^(A) from your ways
    and harden our hearts^(B) so we do not revere^(C) you?
Return^(D) for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes that are your inheritance.^(E)

²⁶ “‘Go to this people and say,
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
²⁷ For this people’s heart has become calloused;^(A)
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’^[a](B)

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
    eyes that could not see
    and ears that could not hear,^(A)
to this very day.”^[a](B)

¹⁰ May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,^(A)
    and their backs be bent forever.”^[a](B)