9  Stay yourselves, and wonder;

||Cry ye out, and cry:

yThey are drunken, zbut not with wine;

They stagger, but not with strong drink.

10  For 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.

11  dAnd 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:

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

Saying, Read this, I pray thee:

And he saith, I am not learned.

13  Wherefore 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:

14  iTherefore, 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.

15  Woe 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?

16  Surely 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?

17  Is 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?

18  And 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.

19  tThe meek also †shall increase their joy in the Lord,

And uthe poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.