Isaiah 29:12

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Or if the book is handed to someone who cannot read, and they are told, 'Read this, please,' they answer, 'I do not know how to read.'

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  • John 7:15-16 : 15 The Jews were amazed, saying, 'How does this man know so much without having been taught?' 16 Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but comes from the One who sent Me.
  • Isa 28:12-13 : 12 To whom He said, 'This is the place of rest—give rest to the weary; this is the place of repose’—but they would not listen. 13 So the word of the LORD to them will be: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there—so that they may go and fall backward, be broken, snared, and captured.
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

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    10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes—the prophets; He has covered your heads—the seers.

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  • Isa 29:13-15
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    13The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'

    14Therefore, I will again do extraordinary things with this people, with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise will perish, and the understanding of their discerning will vanish.

    15Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, 'Who sees us? Who knows us?'

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    21Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

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    18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

  • Ezek 3:5-6
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    5For you are not being sent to a people with an obscure language or a difficult tongue, but to the house of Israel.

    6You are not sent to many peoples with unintelligible speech or difficult tongues whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

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    20You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; your ears are open, but you do not listen.

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    10For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there.

    11Indeed, with stammering lips and another tongue, He will speak to this people.

    12To whom He said, 'This is the place of rest—give rest to the weary; this is the place of repose’—but they would not listen.

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