20 Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
Isaiah 42:20
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Isaiah 32:2–4
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Jeremiah 5:20–22
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah: 21 “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear. 22 Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand…
Psalms 115:5–7
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Matthew 13:13–15
13 This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’ 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiv…
Matthew 13:8–10
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Job 33:13–15
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Isaiah 44:17–19
17 From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.” 18 They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot unde…
Matthew 11:14–16
14 And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. 15 He who has ears, let him hear. 16 To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
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