10. For the Lord has poured out on youan overwhelming urge to sleep; He has shut your eyes — the prophets,and covered your heads — the seers.
11. For you the entire vision will be like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to one who can read and he is asked to read it, he will say, “I can’t read it, because it is sealed.”
12. And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it, he will say, “I can’t read.”
13. The Lord said:Because these people approach Me with their mouths to honor Me with lip-service —yet their hearts are far from Me,and their worship consists of man-made ruleslearned by rote —
14. therefore I will again confound these peoplewith wonder after wonder. The wisdom of their wise men will vanish, and the understanding of the perceptive will be hidden.
15. Woe to those who go to great lengthsto hide their plans from the Lord. They do their works in darkness,and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us? ”
16. You have turned things around,as if the potter were the same as the clay.How can what is made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? How can what is formedsay about the one who formed it,“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?
17. Isn’t it true that in just a little whileLebanon will become an orchard,and the orchard will seem like a forest?