19. Who is blind but My servant? and deaf, as My messenger who I
send? who blind as the confident of God, and blind as the servant of
Jehovah? 20. Thou hast seen much, and yet keepest not; opening the
ears, he yet doth not hear. 21. Jehovah was pleased for His
righteousness' sake: He gave a Church [direction, instruction,
revelation] great and glorious. 22. And yet it is a people robbed and
plundered; fastened in holes all of them, and they are hidden in
prison-houses: they have become booty, without deliverers; a spoil,
without any one saying, Give it up again!
23. Who among you will give ear to this, attend, and hear afar off?
24. Who has given up Jacob to plundering, and Israel to the spoilers?
Is it not Jehovah, against whom we have sinned? and they would not
walk in His way, and hearkened not to His law. 25. Then He poured
upon it in burning heat His wrath, and the strength of the fury of
war: and this set it in flames round about, and it did not come to be
recognised; it set on fire, and it did not lay it to heart.