Isaiah 29:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say,“Read this,” he says,“I can’t read.”

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • John 7:15-16 : 15 Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said,“How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” 16 So Jesus replied,“My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.
  • Isa 28:12-13 : 12 In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen. 13 So the LORD’s message to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Isa 29:10-11
    2 verses
    88%

    10For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers).

    11To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say,“Read this,” he responds,“I can’t, because it is sealed.”

  • Isa 29:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.

    14Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”

    15Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”

  • Isa 6:9
    73%

    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

  • Isa 50:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4The Servant Perseveres The Sovereign LORD has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.

    5The Sovereign LORD has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.

  • Jer 5:21
    72%

    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Isa 29:18
    72%

    18At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

  • Ezek 3:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel–

    6not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand– surely if I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

  • Isa 42:20
    71%

    20You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”

  • Acts 28:26
    71%

    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

  • Isa 28:9-13
    5 verses
    71%

    9Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!

    10Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.

    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

    12In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

    13So the LORD’s message to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.

  • 2 Chr 34:18
    70%

    18Then Shaphan the scribe told the king,“Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

  • Prov 29:19
    70%

    19A servant cannot be corrected by words, for although he understands, there is no answer.

  • Matt 13:14
    70%

    14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

  • Luke 4:17
    70%

    17and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

  • Deut 30:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12It is not in heaven, as though one must say,“Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

    13And it is not across the sea, as though one must say,“Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
    70%

    16“This is what the LORD has said:‘I am about to bring disaster on this place and its residents, all the things in the scroll which the king of Judah has read.

  • 2 Kgs 22:10
    70%

    10Then Shaphan the scribe told the king,“Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll.” Shaphan read it out loud before the king.

  • Jer 6:10
    70%

    10I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

  • Ezek 2:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9Then I looked and realized a hand was stretched out to me, and in it was a written scroll.

    10He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

  • Jer 9:12
    69%

    12I said,“Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? Who has a word from the LORD that can explain it? Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?”

  • Ps 38:14
    69%

    14I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.

  • Jer 36:15
    69%

    15They said to him,“Please sit down and read it to us.” So Baruch sat down and read it to them.

  • Isa 8:11
    69%

    11The Lord Encourages Isaiah Indeed this is what the LORD told me quite forcefully. He warned me not to act like these people:

  • Prov 30:3
    69%

    3I have not learned wisdom, nor can I have knowledge of the Holy One.

  • Jer 8:9
    69%

    9Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the LORD’s message, what wisdom do they really have?

  • Jer 1:6
    69%

    6I answered,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, Really I do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

  • Ezek 12:1
    69%

    1Previewing the Exile The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Isa 44:18
    69%

    18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • Jer 29:19
    69%

    19For they have not paid attention to what I said to them through my servants the prophets whom I sent to them over and over again,’ says the LORD.‘And you exiles have not paid any attention to them either,’ says the LORD.

  • Dan 5:15
    69%

    15Now the wise men and astrologers were brought before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation. But they were unable to disclose the interpretation of the message.

  • Isa 42:18
    69%

    18The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

  • Jer 13:15
    69%

    15Then I said to the people of Judah,“Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the LORD has spoken.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    69%

    21It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

  • Deut 17:19
    69%

    19It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

  • Jer 36:21
    69%

    21The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He went and got it from the room of Elishama, the royal secretary. Then he himself read it to the king and all the officials who were standing around him.

  • Jer 25:8
    68%

    8“Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘You have not listened to what I said.

  • Dan 12:8
    68%

    8I heard, but I did not understand. So I said,“Sir, what will happen after these things?”

  • Jer 35:13
    68%

    13The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel told him,“Go and speak to the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem. Tell them,‘I, the LORD, say:“You must learn a lesson from this about obeying what I say!

  • Prov 1:24
    68%

    24However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention,