Ezekiel 12:2

2. Which have eyes to see, and see not This rebellious nation (Ezekiel 2:3; Ezekiel 2:8; Ezekiel 3:26-27) have had their eyes blinded and their ears deafened by their rebellion (Isaiah 6:9; Isaiah 42:20; Jeremiah 5:21; Matthew 13:14-15). They have seared their consciences and deadened their moral perception until even the prophecies just uttered have not moved them to faith and reformation. This is true not only of the hopeless Israelites in Jerusalem now, forsaken by Jehovah, but of many even of the true Israel who are in exile. (See notes Ezekiel 11:16-21.) They need simpler and more impressive picture-sermons to bring them to a conscious recognition of their spiritual condition and the fate which awaits impenitence even the destruction of the holy city.