18. Hear, ye chereshim (deaf people); and look, ye ivrim (blind people) that ye may see.
19. Who is ivver (blind), but Avdi (Yisroel]? Or cheresh (deaf), like malachi that I sent? Who is ivver (blind) like meshullam (the one committed) [to Me] and ivver like the Eved Hashem [i.e., Yisroel].
20. Seeing rabbot, but thou observest not; opening the oznayim, but he heareth not.
21. Hashem is well pleased lema'an (for the sake of) His tzedek; He will magnify the torah, and make it glorious.
22. But this is Am (People) robbed and looted; they are all of them snared in holes, or hidden in batei kela'im (dungeons): they are for plunder, and none delivereth; for loot, and none saith, Give it back!
23. Who among you will give ozen (ear) to this? Who will pay heed and hear for the time to come?
24. Who gave Ya'akov as loot, and Yisroel to ones plundering? Did not Hashem, He against Whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in the darkhei HaShem, neither were they obedient unto His torah.
25. Therefore He hath poured upon it the chemah (burning heat) of His anger, and the strength of the fury of milchamah; and it hath set him on fire round about, yet it knew not; and it consumed it, yet it laid it not to lev.