• Isaiah 6:9, 10
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    •  9 And he replied, “Go, and say to this people:

      ‘You will hear again and again,

      But you will not understand;

      You will see again and again,

      But you will not get any knowledge.’+

      10 Make the heart of this people unreceptive,+

      Make their ears unresponsive,+

      And paste their eyes together,

      So that they may not see with their eyes

      And hear with their ears,

      So that their heart may not understand

      And they may not turn back and be healed.”

  • Matthew 13:13, 14
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 13 That is why I speak to them by the use of illustrations; for looking, they look in vain, and hearing, they hear in vain, nor do they get the sense of it.+ 14 And the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled in their case. It says: ‘You will indeed hear but by no means get the sense of it, and you will indeed look but by no means see.+