Spiritual Blindness: Judicially Inflicted

May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.

This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

“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.”