11. For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ they will answer, ‘I can’t; it is sealed.’
12. Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ they will answer, ‘I don’t know how to read.’
13. The Lord says:‘These people come near to me with their mouthand honour me with their lips,but their hearts are far from me.Their worship of meis based on merely human rules they have been taught.
14. Therefore once more I will astound these peoplewith wonder upon wonder;the wisdom of the wise will perish,the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.’
15. Woe to those who go to great depthsto hide their plans from the Lord,who do their work in darkness and think,‘Who sees us? Who will know?’