Isaiah 29:12 - Easy To Read Version

¹² Or you can give the book to a person that can’t read, and tell that person to read the book. That person will say, “I can’t read the book because I don’t know how to read.”

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 29:11

\{I tell you these things will happen, but you don’t understand me. My words\} are like the words in a book that is closed and sealed. {\cf2\super [269]} You can give the book to a person that can read, and tell that person to read the book. But that person will say, “I can’t read the book. It is closed and I can’t open it.”

Isaiah 29:13

My Master says, “These people say they love me. They show honor to me with words from their mouths. But their hearts are far from me. The honor they show me is nothing but human rules they have memorized.

Isaiah 29:18

The deaf will hear the words in the book. The blind will see through the darkness and fog.

Isaiah 8:16

Isaiah said, “Make an agreement and seal {\cf2\super [103]} it. Save my teachings for the future. Do this while my followers are watching.

Jeremiah 5:4

But I (Jeremiah) said to myself,\par “It must be only the poor people\par that are so foolish.\par Poor people have not learned\par the way of the Lord.\par Poor people don’t know\par the teachings of their God.\par

Hosea 4:6

“My people are destroyed because they have no knowledge. You have refused to learn. So I will refuse to let you be a priest for me. You have forgotten the law of your God, so I will forget your children.