Isaiah 29:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can't, for it is sealed:

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  • Isa 8:16 : 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
  • Dan 12:4 : 4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
  • Dan 12:9 : 9 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
  • Matt 16:17 : 17 Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
  • Rev 5:1-9 : 1 I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals. 2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?" 3 No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it. 4 And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look in it. 5 One of the elders said to me, "Don't weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals." 6 I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. 7 Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne. 8 Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • Rev 6:1 : 1 I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!"

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  • Isa 29:12-15
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    12and the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.

    13The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];

    14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

    15Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

  • Isa 29:9-10
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    9Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

    10For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.

  • 18In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

  • 9He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.'

    10Make the heart of this people fat; Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And turn again, and be healed."

  • 14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive:

  • Isa 42:18-20
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    18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

    19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as Yahweh's servant?

    20You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't hear.

  • Mic 3:6-7
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    6"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, And it is dark to you, that you may not divine; And the sun will go down on the prophets, And the day will be black over them.

    7The seers shall be disappointed, And the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God."

  • 26saying, '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.

  • 10who tell the seers, "Don't see;" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

  • Ezek 2:9-10
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    9When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;

    10He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

  • 8According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."

  • 18They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

  • 3The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • 21Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • 4But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."

  • 16Then he opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction,

  • 4but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

  • 13Therefore shall the word of Yahweh 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, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

  • 26The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days [to come].

  • 16Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

  • 8Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • 10He said to me, "Don't seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

  • 16Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

  • 15Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

  • 27Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.

  • Jer 29:19-20
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    19because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.

    20Hear you therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • 10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can't listen: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • 9The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

  • 7Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people:

  • 11No, but by [men of] strange lips and with another language will he speak to this people;

  • 16Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh.

  • 10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

  • 29The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

  • 2A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege, Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease.

  • 7Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?

  • 11They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."

  • 8Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

  • 16He says, who hears the words of God, Knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

  • 6not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.