17. Removed backward--utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, `Ye [are] our gods.'
18. Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.
19. Who [is] blind but My servant? And deaf as My messenger I send? Who [is] blind as he who is at peace, Yea, blind, as the servant of Jehovah?
20. Seeing many things, and thou observest not, Opening ears, and he heareth not.
21. Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.
22. And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes--all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, `Restore.'
23. Who among you giveth ear [to] this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.
24. Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah--He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.
25. And He poureth on him fury, His anger, and the strength of battle, And it setteth him on fire round about, And he hath not known, And it burneth against him, and he layeth it not to heart!