¹⁸ Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request.

¹¹ And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.

¹¹ But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.

²⁸ He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:

¹⁴ In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

⁴ In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of the peoples blind.

³⁹ And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

⁴⁰ He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

⁷ What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.