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.”

¹⁵Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide it from Yahweh,

and their deeds are^p in a dark place.

And they say, “Who sees us?

And who knows us?”

¹⁶Your perversity!

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.”

Blessing after Punishment

¹⁷In a very little while^s shall not Lebanon change into a fruitful land,

and the fruitful land be regarded as a forest?

¹⁸And 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.

Read in Logos

Footnotes

iOr “and”
jOr “and”
kThe reading tradition (Qere) has “a” instead of “the”
lLiterally “Call”
mLiterally “know a document”
nLiterally “Call”
oLiterally “know a document”
pThe Hebrew is singular
qLiterally “of the one who creates”
rLiterally “one who creates”
sLiterally “Not still a trifling of time”