Israel has seen but not heeded

18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

19Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like my messenger whom I send? Who is blind like the one who is at peace, and blind like the servant of Yahweh?

20You have seen many things, but you do not observe; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

21Yahweh was pleased, for the sake of his righteousness, to make the law great and glorious.

22But this is a people plundered and pillaged, all of them trapped in holes and hidden away in prison houses. They have become spoil, with no one to rescue them; plunder, with no one saying, “Restore!”