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Blind to God’s Words

“Act stupid!
    Be astonished!
Act blind,
    and be blind!
Be drunk,[a] but not from[b] wine;
    stagger around,[c] but not from strong drink.
10 For the Lord has poured out upon you
    a spirit of deep sleep—
he has closed your eyes, you prophets,
    he has covered your heads, you seers!”

11 “And this entire vision has become for you like the words of a sealed book. When people give it to someone who can read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ he answers,[d] ‘I cannot, because it is sealed.’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads They have become drunk
  2. Isaiah 29:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks from
  3. Isaiah 29:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads They stagger around
  4. Isaiah 29:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he will answer