the prophecy
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 6:9
And He replied: Go! Say to these people: Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 6:10
Dull the minds of these people; deafen their ears and blind their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their minds, turn back, and be healed.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_26 12:2
"Son of man, you are living among a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_41 4:12
so that they may look and look, yet not perceive; they may listen and listen, yet not understand; otherwise, they might turn back-- and be forgiven."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_42 8:10
So He said, "The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that Looking they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_43 12:39
This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_43 12:40
He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see with their eyes or understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I would heal them.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_44 28:25-27
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Disagreeing among themselves, they began to leave after Paul made one statement: "The Holy Spirit correctly spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your forefathers
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when He said, Go to this people and say: 'You will listen and listen, yet never understand; and you will look and look, yet never perceive.
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For this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and be converted-- and I would heal them.'
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 11:8-10
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as it is written: God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear, to this day.
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And David says: Let their feasting become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution to them.
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Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent continually.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_47 3:14
But their minds were closed. For to this day, at the reading of the old covenant, the same veil remains; it is not lifted, because it is set aside [only] in Christ.