Isaiah 29:9–24
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.”
17 ⌊In a very little while⌋s shall not Lebanon change into a fruitful land,
and the fruitful land be regarded as a forest?
18 And on that day, the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll,
and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and darkness.
19 And the meek ⌊have joy after joy⌋t in Yahweh,
and the needy of the people shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel.
20 For the tyrant shall be no more,
and the scoffer shall come to an end.
And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off;
21 those who mislead a person into sin with a word
and set a trap for the ⌊arbitrator⌋u in the gate
and guide away the righteous by emptiness.
22 Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says this to the house of Jacob:
“Jacob will no longer be ashamed,
and his face will no longer grow pale.
23 For when he sees his children,
the work of my hands, in his midst,
they will treat my name as holy,
and they will treat the holy one of Jacob as holy,
and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24 And those who err in spirit will ⌊acquire⌋v understanding,
and those who grumble will learn instruction.