Isaiah 29:9–18

⁹Stay yourselves, and wonder;

^||Cry ye out, and cry:

^yThey are drunken, ^zbut not with wine;

They stagger, but not with strong drink.

¹⁰For ^athe Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of ^bdeep sleep,

And hath ^cclosed your eyes:

The prophets and your ^†rulers, the seers hath he covered.

^11dAnd the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a ^||book ^ethat is sealed,

Which men deliver to one that is learned,

Saying, Read this, I pray thee:

And he saith, I cannot; ^efor it is sealed:

¹²And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,

Saying, Read this, I pray thee:

And he saith, I am not learned.

¹³Wherefore the Lord said,

^fForasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth,

And with their lips do ^ghonour me,

But have removed their heart far from me,

And their fear toward me is taught by ^hthe precept of men:

¹⁴ⁱTherefore, behold, ^†I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people,

Even a marvellous work and a wonder:

For ^jthe wisdom of their wise men shall perish,

And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

¹⁵Woe unto ^kthem that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord,

And their works are in the dark,

And ^lthey say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

¹⁶Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay:

For ^mshall the work say of him that made it, He made me not?

Or shall ⁿthe thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

¹⁷Is it not ^oyet a very little while,

And ^pLebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,

^qAnd the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

¹⁸And ^rin that day ^sshall the deaf hear the words of the book,

And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.