Isaiah 29:10-13

Living Bible

¹⁰ For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and seers, ¹¹ so all of these future events are a sealed book to them. When you give it to one who can read, he says, “I can’t, for it’s sealed.” ¹² When you give it to another, he says, “Sorry, I can’t read.”

¹³ And so the Lord says, “Since these people say they are mine but they do not obey me, and since their worship amounts to mere words learned by rote,