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29 lines
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# Make the heart of this people insensitive
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"Make these people unable to understand" or "Make the minds of these people dull"
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# Make the heart ... insensitive
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This command means that Yahweh will use Isaiah's message to cause the people to understand even less and to make them less sensitive to what Yahweh is doing.
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# their ears dull, and blind their eyes
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"make it so that they cannot hear, and make it so that they cannot see."
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# they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears
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People being able to understand Yahweh's message and what he is doing is spoken of as if the people were able physically to see and hear.
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# understand with their heart
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Truly understanding something and caring about what is happening is spoken of as if the people were to understand with their hearts.
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# then turn
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"follow me again" or "then start trusting in me again"
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# be healed
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"I would heal them"
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