9Loiter and be dazed, enjoy yourselves and be blinded,
be drunk but not with wine, reel but not with strong drink;
10for the LORD has poured upon you a spirit of deep stupor;
he has closed your eyes, the prophets,
and muffled your heads, the seers.
11All prophetic vision has become for you like a sealed book. Give such a book to one who can read and say, 'Come, read this'; he will answer, 'I cannot', because it is sealed. 12Give it to one who cannot read and say, 'Come, read this'; he will answer, 'I cannot read.'
13Then the Lord said:
15Shame upon those who seek to hide their purpose
too deep for the LORD to see,
and who, when their deeds are done in the dark,
say, 'Who sees us? Who knows of us?'
16How you turn things upside down,
as if the potter ranked no higher than the clay!
Shall the thing made say of its maker, 'He did not make me'?
Shall the pot say of the potter, 'He has no skill'?
17The time is but short
before Lebanon goes back to grassland
and the grassland is no better than scrub.
18On that day deaf men shall hear
when a book is read,
and the eyes of the blind shall see
out of impenetrable darkness.
19The lowly shall once again rejoice in the LORD,
and the poorest of men exult in the Holy One of Israel.
20The ruthless shall be no more, the arrogant shall cease to be;
those who are quick to see mischief,
21those who charge others with a sin
or lay traps for him who brings the wrongdoer into court
or by falsehood deny justice to the righteous—
all these shall be exterminated.
22Therefore these are the words of the LORD the God of the house of Jacob, the God who ransomed Abraham: This is no time for Jacob to be shamed,
23for his descendants will hallow my name
no time for his face to grow pale;
when they see what I have done in their nation.
They will hallow the Holy One of Jacob
and hold the God of Israel in awe;
24those whose minds are confused will gain understanding,
and the obstinate will receive instruction.
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