⁴⁰ “He has blinded their eyes
    and hardened their heart,
so that they might not look with their eyes
    and understand with their heart and turn—
    and I would heal them.”^(A)

‘You will indeed listen but never understand,
    and you will indeed look but never perceive.^(B)
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
    and their ears are hard of hearing,
        and they have shut their eyes,
        so that they might not look with their eyes,
    and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart and turn—
    and I would heal them.’^(C)

‘looking they may not perceive
    and hearing they may not understand.’

‘they may indeed look but not perceive,
    and may indeed hear but not understand;
so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.’ ”^(A)

“God gave them a sluggish spirit,
    eyes that would not see
    and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”^(B)

“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
    a stumbling block and a retribution for them;^(C)
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
    and keep their backs forever bent.”