Ezekiel 12:2
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“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
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“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”