The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 6:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Hear ye indeed … see ye indeed; literally, In hearing hear … in seeing see—with the force of "Listen and bear; look and see;" "Attend, "that is," with the outward souse, and catch all that sense can catch, but without perception of the inward meaning".

This is what they would do. Isaiah is bidden to exhort them, in grave irony, to do it.

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