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He said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but don`t understand; and see you indeed, but don`t perceive.
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Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.
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Then said I, Lord, how long? He answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
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and Yahweh have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.