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Isaiah 29:12-14
New English Translation
Isaiah 29:12-14
New English Translation
12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read[a] and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.”[b]
13 The Lord[c] says,
“These people say they are loyal to me;[d]
they say wonderful things about me,[e]
but they are not really loyal to me.[f]
Their worship consists of
nothing but man-made ritual.[g]
14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people—
an absolutely extraordinary deed.[h]
Wise men will have nothing to say,
the sages will have no explanations.”[i]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 29:12 tn Heb “and if the scroll is handed to one who does not know a scroll.”
- Isaiah 29:12 tn Heb “I do not know a scroll.”
- Isaiah 29:13 tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay).
- Isaiah 29:13 tn Heb “Because these people draw near to me with their mouth.”
- Isaiah 29:13 tn Heb “and with their lips they honor me.”
- Isaiah 29:13 tn Heb “but their heart is far from me.” The heart is viewed here as the seat of the will, from which genuine loyalty derives.
- Isaiah 29:13 tn Heb “their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught.”
- Isaiah 29:14 tn Heb “Therefore I will again do something amazing with these people, an amazing deed, an amazing thing.” This probably refers to the amazing transformation predicted in vv. 17-24, which will follow the purifying judgment implied in vv. 15-16.
- Isaiah 29:14 tn Heb “the wisdom of their wise ones will perish, the discernment of their discerning ones will keep hidden.”
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