18Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, in order to see.19Who is blind except my servant, or deaf like my messenger whom I send? Who is blind like the allied one, and blind like the servant of the LORD?20You have seen many things, yet you do not keep them; though ears are opened, he does not hear.21The LORD delighted for the sake of his righteousness; he will magnify instruction and make it glorious.22Yet this is a people plundered and plundered, all of them ensnared in caverns and hidden in houses of prison; they have become plunder with no one to rescue, and plunder with no one saying return.23Who among you will listen to this? Let him listen and hear for the future.24Who gave Jacob over to spoil and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the LORD, the one against whom we have sinned? They were not willing to walk in his ways, and they did not listen to his instruction.25So he poured out on him the rage of his anger and the strength of battle; it kindled around him, yet he did not know, and it burned against him, yet he does not take it to heart.