They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
He hath shut their eyes. "He," God, hath given them over to judicial blindness. Not His direct physical, but His providential, agency in administering His moral government, is meant (Isaiah 6:9-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:11). "Shut" - literally,daubed, plastered up. It is an Eastern custom, in some cases, to seal up the eyes of offenders.