Isaiah 29
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 29:10-13

10For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep 1sleep, He has 2shut your eyes, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, the seers. 11The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed 34book, which when they give it to the one who 5is literate, saying, “Please read this,” he will say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” 12Then the 6book will be given to the one who 7is illiterate, saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I 8cannot read.”

13Then the Lord said, “Because 9this people draw near with their 10words And honor Me with their 11lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their 12reverence for Me 13consists of 14tradition learned by rote,

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Notes

  1. 1. Isaiah 29:10 Ps 69:23; Is 6:9, 10; Mic 3:6; Rom 11:8 ↩
  2. 2. Isaiah 29:10 Is 44:18; 2 Thess 2:9-12 ↩
  3. 3. Isaiah 29:11 Or scroll ↩
  4. 4. Isaiah 29:11 Is 8:16; Dan 12:4, 9; Matt 13:11 ↩
  5. 5. Isaiah 29:11 Lit knows books ↩
  6. 6. Isaiah 29:12 Or scroll ↩
  7. 7. Isaiah 29:12 Lit does not know books ↩
  8. 8. Isaiah 29:12 Lit do not know books ↩
  9. 9. Isaiah 29:13 Ezek 33:31; Matt 15:8, 9; Mark 7:6, 7 ↩
  10. 10. Isaiah 29:13 Lit mouth ↩
  11. 11. Isaiah 29:13 Lit lips ↩
  12. 12. Isaiah 29:13 Lit fear of Me ↩
  13. 13. Isaiah 29:13 Lit is ↩
  14. 14. Isaiah 29:13 Lit commandment of rulers ↩

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