Isaiah 29:9–16
9 Be astonished and be amazed!
Blind yourselves and be blinded!
They are drunk buti not from wine;
they stagger butj not from strong drink.
10 For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep,
and he has shut your eyes, the prophets,
and he has covered your heads, the seers.
11 And the vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. When they give it to one who knows thek document, saying, “⌊Read⌋l this now!” He says, “I am not able, for it is sealed.” 12 And if the document is given to one who does not ⌊know how to read⌋,m saying, “⌊Read⌋n this now!” he says, “I do not ⌊know how to read⌋.”o
“Because this people draw near with its mouth,
and with its lips it honors me,
and its heart is far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,
14 therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular
and a spectacle with this spectacular people.
And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden.”
15 Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide it from Yahweh,
and their deeds arep in a dark place.
And they say, “Who sees us?
And who knows us?”
As if ⌊a potter⌋q shall be regarded as the clay!
That the product of its maker says,
“He did not make me,”
and the thing made into shape says of its ⌊potter⌋,r
“He has no understanding.”