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If you confuse yourselves, you will be confused.
    If you blind yourselves, you will be blinded.
    You are drunk, but not from wine.
    You stagger, but not from liquor.
10 Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep.
    He will shut your eyes. (Your eyes are the prophets.)
    He will cover your heads. (Your heads are the seers.[a])

11 To you all these visions will be like words in a book that is closed and sealed. You give this book to someone who can read, saying, “Please read this.”

He answers, “I can’t read it. It’s sealed.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:10 A seer is a prophet.

Be stunned and amazed,(A)
    blind yourselves and be sightless;(B)
be drunk,(C) but not from wine,(D)
    stagger,(E) but not from beer.
10 The 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)

11 For 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.”

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