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11 The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed [a](A)book, which when they give it to the one who [b]is literate, saying, “Please read this,” he will say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

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  1. Isaiah 29:11 Or scroll
  2. Isaiah 29:11 Lit knows books

11 To you my words are like the words in a book that is closed and sealed.[a] You can give the book to someone who can read and tell that person to read it. But that person will say, “I cannot read the book. It is closed and I cannot open it.”

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  1. Isaiah 29:11 sealed A piece of clay or wax was put on the closed book to show that the book should not be opened.

11 For 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.”

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11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

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