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Isaiah 29:12-14
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Isaiah 29:12-14
Living Bible
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, 14 therefore I will take awesome vengeance on these hypocrites and make their wisest counselors as fools.”
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Isaiah 29:12-14
New International Version
Isaiah 29:12-14
New International Version
12 Or 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.”
13 The Lord says:
“These people(A) come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,(B)
but their hearts are far from me.(C)
Their worship of me
is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[a](D)
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder;(E)
the wisdom of the wise(F) will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.(G)”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules
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