Isaiah 29:11–16

11 For you the entire vision will be like the words of a sealed document.l If it is given to one who can read and he is asked to read it,C he will say, “I can’t read it, because it is sealed.” 12 And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it,D he will say, “I can’t read.”

13 The Lord said:

These people approach me with their speechesm

to honor me with lip-service,E

yet their hearts are far from me,

and human rules direct their worship of me.F

14 Therefore, I will again confound these people

with wonder after wonder.n

The wisdom of their wise will vanish,o

and the perception of their perceptive will be hidden.

15 Woe to those who go to great lengths

to hide their plans from the Lord.p

They do their works in the dark,

and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”q

16 You have turned things around,

as if the potter were the same as the clay.

How can what is made say about its maker,

“He didn’t make me”?r

How can what is formed

say about the one who formed it,

“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?