Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 42:20
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Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
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Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
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You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.
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Isaiah 42
18 Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
19 Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?
20 Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
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