^(C)“‘“You will indeed hear but never understand,
    and you will indeed see but never perceive.”
¹⁵ For this people's heart has grown dull,
    and with their ears ^(D)they can barely hear,
    and ^(E)their eyes they have closed,
lest they should see with their eyes
    and hear with their ears
and ^(F)understand with their heart
    and ^(G)turn, and I would heal them.’

²² “For ^(A)my people are foolish;
    they know me not;
they are stupid children;
    they have no understanding.
^(B)They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
    But how to do good they know not.”

^8 (A)Understand, O dullest of the people!
    Fools, when will you be wise?

^4 (C)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
    and put no trust in any brother,
for every ^(D)brother is a deceiver,
    and every neighbor ^(E)goes about as a slanderer.
⁵ Everyone deceives his neighbor,
    and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
    they weary themselves committing iniquity.
⁶ Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
    ^(F)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.