Translations
Modern
And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
Traditional
And the vision of all 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:
Literal
And the vision of all has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to the one knowing a book, saying, “Read this now! “And he says, I am not able, for it is” sealed.
Latin
Et erit vobis visio omnium sicut verba libri signati, quem cum dederint scienti litteras, dicent: Lege istum: et respondebit: Non possum, signatus est enim.
Original
Hebrew
English
And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
Notes
Jerusalem’s blindness kept its people from understanding God’s plan.
Here, blindness does not mean physical blindness. It means spiritual blindness. The people could see with their eyes, but they did not understand what God was doing.
This is the second of the six woes (Woe …).
Theme notes and profiles
Events
- Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC
Parallels
Glossary
Topics
Blindness: Spiritual Books: Often Sealed Christian Minister: False and Corrupt Isaiah: Prophecies, Reproofs, and Exhortations of Denounces the Hypocrisy of the Jews Reprobacy: General Scriptures Concerning