Isa 6:10, 55:7, Hos 14:1, Amo 4:6-12, Act 26:17-20, 28:26-27 | ESV | STEP | Make the heart of this people dull , and their ears heavy , and blind their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes , and hear with their ears , and understand with their hearts , and turn and be healed .

10 ^aMake the heart of this people ^bdull, ^{▼▼Hebrew fat}
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
^dlest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”

Isaiah 55:7

7 let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Hosea 14:1

A Plea to Return to the Lord

1 ^eReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for ^fyou have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Amos 4:6-12

Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and ^glack of bread in all your places,
^hyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
7 “I also ⁱwithheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^jI would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
8 so two or three cities ^kwould wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^lyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
9 ^m“I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees ⁿthe locust devoured;
^oyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
10 “I sent among you a pestilence ^pafter the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^qcarried away your horses, ^{▼▼Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses}
and ^sI made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^tyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
11 “I overthrew some of you,
^uas when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were ^vas a brand ^{▼▼That is, a burning stick} plucked out of the burning;
^xyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

Acts 26:17-20

17 ^ydelivering you from your people and from the Gentiles— ^zto whom I ^aaam sending you 18 ^abto open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from ^acthe power of Satan to God, that they may receive ^adforgiveness of sins and ^aea place among those who are sanctified ^afby faith in me.’

19 “Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to ^agthe heavenly vision, 20 but declared first ^ahto those in Damascus, ^aithen in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also ^ajto the Gentiles, that they should ^akrepent and ^alturn to God, performing deeds ^amin keeping with their repentance.

Acts 28:26-27

26 ^an“‘Go to this people, and say,
^ao“You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive.”
27 ^apFor this people’s heart has grown dull,
and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed;
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
and ^aqturn, and I would heal them.’