Isaiah 29:12
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12 And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot read.”
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John 7:15-16
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15 The Jews were astonished at it, saying, “How does this man have such learning, when he has never been taught?”(A) 16 Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.(B)
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Isaiah 29:18
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18 On that day the deaf shall hear
the words of a scroll,
and freed from gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind shall see.(A)
Hosea 4:6
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6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you from being a priest to me;
and since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.(A)
Jeremiah 5:4
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4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense,
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the law of their God.(A)
Isaiah 28:12-13
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12 to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary,
and this is repose,”
yet they would not hear.(A)
13 Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,”[a]
in order that they may go and fall backward
and be broken and snared and taken.(B)
Footnotes
- 28.13 Meaning of Heb of this verse uncertain
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