And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”

In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

A Rebellious People

And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.

Seek and read from the book of the Lord: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.