Quotes About Awareness

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ëBe ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.í

All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ramís horn sounds, you will hear it.

When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”

This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth?

Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.

They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ëI already knew them!í

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

Israelís watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ëHere I am! Here I am!í