Isaiah 29:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And when the book is given to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you, he says, I cannot read.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.

Common English Bible

¹² And when the scroll is given to one who can’t read, saying, “Read this,” that one will say, “I can’t read.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But if the book is given to someone who does not know how to read, and it is said to him, "Read," then he will respond, "I do not know how to read."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no letters, and it shall be said to him: Read. And he shall answer: I know no letters.

Isaiah 29:12 Cross References

Isaiah 29:11

And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed:

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them:

Isaiah 29:18

And in 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.

Isaiah 8:16

Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, Surely these are poor: they are foolish; for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgement of their God:

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.