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 convert, and be healed.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. {pulled...: Heb. they gave a backsliding shoulder} {stopped: Heb. made heavy}

That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and {their} sins should be forgiven them.

Why do ye not understand my speech? {even} because ye cannot hear my word.

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. {rulers: Heb. heads}

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou {art} my praise.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

Their heart is as fat as grease; {but} I delight in thy law.

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

And they shall turn away {their} ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, {was there} the tree of life, which bare twelve {manner of} fruits, {and} yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree {were} for the healing of the nations.

For {it is} impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, {Is there} not a lie in my right hand?

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Return, ye backsliding children, {and} I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou {art} the LORD our God.

The heart {is} deceitful above all {things}, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

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 convert, and be healed.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: {blindness: or, hardness}

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. {be...: Heb. gather thee up}

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, {and} seek God.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

Yea, they made their hearts {as} an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. {by: Heb. by the hand of}

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, {and} set them on fire: for it {is} a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: {which being} brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. {desert: or, plain}

I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.