Isaiah 29:12
and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."
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- John 7:15-16 : 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?" 16 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
- Isa 28:12-13 : 12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear. 13 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
- Isa 29:18 : 18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
- Jer 5:4 : 4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.
- Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
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10 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
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13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
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15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"
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9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, but don't understand; and you see indeed, but don't perceive.'
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4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
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21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
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18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
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5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
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26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.
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9 Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
10 For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
11 But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;
12 to whom he said, "This is the resting place. Give rest to weary;" and "This is the refreshing;" yet they would not hear.
13 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
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19 A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
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17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
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16 "Thus says Yahweh, 'Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
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14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
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3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
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6 Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don't know how to speak; for I am a child."
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1 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,
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18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
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24 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;