Isaiah 29:9-12

New International Version

⁹Be stunned and amazed,^(A)
    blind yourselves and be sightless;^(B)
be drunk,^(C) but not from wine,^(D)
    stagger,^(E) but not from beer.
¹⁰The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:^(F)
    He has sealed your eyes^(G) (the prophets);^(H)
    he has covered your heads (the seers).^(I)

¹¹For you this whole vision^(J) is nothing but words sealed^(K) 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.”

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Isaiah 29:9-12

New American Standard Bible

⁹^(A)Be delayed and horrified,
Blind yourselves and be blind;
They ^(B)become drunk, but not with wine,
They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.
¹⁰For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep ^(C)sleep,
He has ^(D)shut your eyes—the prophets;
And He has covered your heads—the seers.

¹¹The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed ^[a]^(E)book, which, when they give it to the one who ^[b]is literate, saying, “Please read this,” he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.” ¹²Then the ^[c]book will be given to the one who ^[d]is illiterate, saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I ^[e]cannot read.”