Bible Verses About The Call of God: Judicial blindness

Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”

And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

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