TSK · Isaiah 44:18

The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it all.

He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers).

He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’

They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.

Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said,

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

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

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,