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This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
20 Declare this to Yakov’s (Jacob’s) descendants,
and proclaim it in Yehudah (Judah):
21 Please listen to this, you foolish, heartless people.
They have eyes but do not see,
and they have ears, but do not hear.[ref]
Should you all respect and strive to obey me,
and shouldn’t you tremble in front of me?
It was me who designated the sand as the boundary for the ocean—
it’s a permanent line and the sea doesn’t go past it.
The waters surge but get no further,
and the waves roar, but can’t get past it.[ref]
23 But this group of people has a stubborn and rebellious heart.
They’ve turned aside and gone away.
24 They don’t say to themselves:
Please, let’s strive to obey our god Yahweh—
the one who gives the autumn and spring rains at the appropriate time.
He decides on the harvest weeks for us.
25 Your disobedience has diverted those things,
≈ and your sins have withheld goodness from you all
26 because there are wicked influencers among my people.
They lie in wait like a bird-catcher.
≈ They set a trap and catch people.
27 Their homes are full of deceit like a cage full of birds.
→ so that’s how they’ve become rich and powerful.
28 They’ve become fat and slick.
They also disobey by doing evil.
They don’t plead the cause of those who are fatherless,
≈ and they’re successful, yet they haven’t insisted on justice for the poor.
Why shouldn’t I punish them for all that behaviour?
≈ Why shouldn’t I avenge myself on a nation like this one?
30 Something horrible and shocking has happened in the country:
31 The prophets prophesy with lies,
and the priests rule by their own authority,
Isa 6:9-10:
‘Listen closely, but don’t understand,
and see clearly, but don’t perceive.’[ref]
10 Fatten the heart of this people,
≈ and dull its ears and dim its eyes.
Otherwise it might see with its eyes
and understand with its heart,
→ and turn and be healed.”
Eze 12:2:
2 “Son of humanity, you live among a rebellious people group who have eyes to see, yet they don’t see, and who have ears to hear, but don’t listen, because they’re a rebellious people group.[ref]
Mrk 8:18:
18 You all have eyes but can’t seem to see and have ears but can’t seem to listen. Have you already forgotten what just happened?[ref]
Yob 38:8-11:
8 Who was the one who confined the ocean with gates[ref]
when it burst its way out from the womb?
9 I covered it with clouds as its clothing,
≈ and thick darkness as its tight blanket.
10 I assigned my boundaries for the ocean,
and put a latch on its gates,
11 and I said, ‘You can only come this far and no further.
≈ Your proud waves will be stopped here.’
