17. They shall be turned back in utter shamewho trust in idols;Who say to molten images,“You are our gods.”
18. You deaf ones, listen,you blind ones, look and see!
19. Who is blind but my servant,or deaf like the messenger I send?Who is blind like the one I restore,blind like the servant of the Lord?
20. You see many things but do not observe;ears open, but do not hear.
21. It was the Lord’s will for the sake of his justiceto make his teaching great and glorious.
22. This is a people plundered and despoiled,all of them trapped in holes,hidden away in prisons.They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them,as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”
23. Who among you will give ear to this,listen and pay attention from now on?