Isaiah 29:9–14

⁹Be astonished and be amazed!

Blind yourselves and be blinded!

They are drunk butⁱ not from wine;

they stagger but^j not from strong drink.

¹⁰For 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.

¹¹And the vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the^k document, saying, “Read^l this now!” He says, “I am not able, for it is sealed.” ¹²And if the document is given to one who does not know how to read,^m saying, “Readⁿ this now!” he says, “I do not know how to read.”^o

¹³And the Lord said,

“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,

¹⁴therefore 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.”