Isaiah 29:11-19

New International Version

¹¹For you this whole vision^(A) is nothing but words sealed^(B) in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” ¹²Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

¹³The Lord says:

“These people^(C) come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,^(D)
    but their hearts are far from me.^(E)
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.^[a]^(F)
¹⁴Therefore once more I will astound these people
    with wonder upon wonder;^(G)
the wisdom of the wise^(H) will perish,
    the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.^(I)”
¹⁵Woe to those who go to great depths
    to hide^(J) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
    “Who sees us?^(K) Who will know?”^(L)
¹⁶You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!^(M)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed^(N) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,^(O)
    “You know nothing”?^(P)

¹⁷In a very short time,^(Q) will not Lebanon^(R) be turned into a fertile field^(S)
    and the fertile field seem like a forest?^(T)
¹⁸In that day^(U) the deaf^(V) will hear the words of the scroll,
    and out of gloom and darkness^(W)
    the eyes of the blind will see.^(X)
¹⁹Once more the humble^(Y) will rejoice in the Lord;
    the needy^(Z) will rejoice in the Holy One^(AA) of Israel.