Isaiah 29:9-16

New International Version

⁹Be stunned and amazed,^(A)
    blind yourselves and be sightless;^(B)
be drunk,^(C) but not from wine,^(D)
    stagger,^(E) but not from beer.
¹⁰The 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)

¹¹For 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.” ¹²Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

¹³The Lord says:

“These people^(L) come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,^(M)
    but their hearts are far from me.^(N)
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.^[a]^(O)
¹⁴Therefore once more I will astound these people
    with wonder upon wonder;^(P)
the wisdom of the wise^(Q) will perish,
    the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.^(R)”
¹⁵Woe to those who go to great depths
    to hide^(S) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
    “Who sees us?^(T) Who will know?”^(U)
¹⁶You turn things upside down,
    as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!^(V)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed^(W) it,
    “You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,^(X)
    “You know nothing”?^(Y)