Add parallel Print Page Options

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 the[a] document, saying, “Read[b] 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,[c] saying, “Read[d] this now!” he says, “I do not know how to read.”[e]

13 And 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,

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:11 The reading tradition (Qere) has “a” instead of “the”
  2. Isaiah 29:11 Literally “Call”
  3. Isaiah 29:12 Literally “know a document”
  4. Isaiah 29:12 Literally “Call”
  5. Isaiah 29:12 Literally “know a document”