¹¹This vision is like the words of a book that is closed and sealed. You may give the book to someone who can read and tell that person to read it. But he will say, “I can’t read the book, because it is sealed.” ¹²Or you may give the book to someone who cannot read and tell him to read it. But he will say, “I don’t know how to read.”

¹³The Lord says:

“These people worship me with their mouths,

and honor me with their lips,

but their hearts are far from me.

Their worship is based on

nothing but human rules.

¹⁴So I will continue to amaze these people

by doing more and more miracles.

Their wise men will lose their wisdom;

their wise men will not be able to understand.”

Warnings About Other Nations

¹⁵How terrible it will be for those who try

to hide things from the Lord

and who do their work in darkness.

They think no one will see them or know what they do.

¹⁶You are confused.

You think the clay is equal to the potter.

You think that an object can tell the one who made it,

“You didn’t make me.”

This is like a pot telling its maker,

“You don’t know anything.”

A Better Time Is Coming

¹⁷In a very short time, Lebanon will become rich farmland,

and the rich farmland will seem like a forest.

¹⁸At that time the deaf will hear the words in a book.

Instead of having darkness and gloom, the blind will see.

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