On this topic we have much to say ¹  and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish ²  in hearing.

Jesus ¹  said, “Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

If an iron axhead ¹  is blunt and a workman ²  does not sharpen ³  its edge, ⁴  he must exert a great deal of effort; ⁵  so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.

Look, the Lord’s hand is not too weak ¹  to deliver you; his ear is not too deaf to hear you. ² 

the priest is to examine them, ¹  and if ²  the bright spots on the skin of their body are faded white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin. The person is clean. ³ 

Their hearts are calloused, ¹  but I find delight in your law.

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ ¹ 

For the heart of this people has become dull, ¹  and their ears are hard of hearing, ²  and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, ³  and I would heal them.”’ ⁴ 

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.” ¹ 

א (Alef) ¹ Alas! ²  Gold has lost its luster; ³  pure gold loses value. ⁴  Jewels ⁵  are scattered on every street corner. ⁶ 

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

Leah’s eyes were tender, ¹  but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.) ² 

His eyes will be dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk. ¹ 

The people of those nations ¹  are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless! ² 

But their minds were closed. ¹  For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. ²  It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away. ³ 

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, ¹  and wine to those who are bitterly distressed; ² 

“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

For indeed, what had been glorious now ¹  has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it. ² 

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull ¹  nor had his vitality ²  departed.