Let their table before them be a snare, and what should have been for their well-being, let it be a trap.
Isaiah 29:10 - Tree of Life Version For Adonai has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has shut your eyes—the prophets, and covered your heads—the seers. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep. And He has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, He has covered and muffled. American Standard Version (1901) For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered. Common English Bible The LORD has poured on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has shut your eyes, you prophets, and covered your heads, you seers. Catholic Public Domain Version For the Lord has mixed for you a spirit of deep sleep. He will close your eyes. He will cover your prophets and leaders, who see visions. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep: he will shut up your eyes: he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions. |
Let their table before them be a snare, and what should have been for their well-being, let it be a trap.
Therefore, behold, once more I will do a marvelous work among this people— a marvel and a wonder— so the wisdom of their wise will perish, and the discernment of their discerning will be concealed.”
They say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us smooth words. Prophesy illusions.
They do not know or understand! For He smeared over their eyes, so they cannot see, and their hearts, so they cannot understand.
“It will happen in that day” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “that the king’s heart will fail, as will the heart of the princes. The kohanim will be appalled, and the prophets will be stunned.”
They wander in the streets, like blind men. They are so defiled with blood, no one can touch their garments.
“When the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Adonai, have deceived that prophet. I will stretch out My hand against him. I will destroy him from among My people Israel.
“Do not prophesy,” they prophesy. Unless they prophesy about such things, He will not turn back reproaches.”
Then I said: “Hear, leaders of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
“Therefore you will have night without vision, and darkness without divination. The sun shall set on the prophets, the day shall become dark upon them.”
just as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, until this very day.”
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so they might not see the light of the Good News of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of God.
So David took the spear and the water jar from beside Saul’s head. They got away—and no one saw it, or knew it, or woke up—for all were asleep, for a deep sleep from Adonai had fallen upon them.
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let’s go to the seer”—for today’s prophet was formerly called a seer.)