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11 “And this entire vision has become for you like the words of a sealed book. When people give it to someone who can read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ he answers,[a] ‘I cannot, because it is sealed.’ 12 Or when they give the book[b] to someone who cannot read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ he answers,[c] ‘I don’t know how to read.’”

A Rebuke of Hypocritical Worship

13 Then the Lord said:

“Because these people draw near with their mouths
    and honor me with their lips,
        but their hearts are far from me,
worship of me[d] has become
    merely like[e] rules taught by human beings.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he will answer
  2. Isaiah 29:12 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the book will be given
  3. Isaiah 29:12 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he will answer
  4. Isaiah 29:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Their worship of me
  5. Isaiah 29:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack like