Isaiah 29:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot read.”

Cross References

Isaiah 29:18

On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll, and freed from gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge! Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me; and since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.

Isaiah 8:16

Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples.

Isaiah 29:11

The vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to those who can read with the command, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot, for it is sealed.”

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,