Isaiah 29:11
Good News Translation
The meaning of every prophetic vision will be hidden from you; it will be like a sealed scroll. If you take it to someone who knows how to read and ask him to read it to you, he will say he can't because it is sealed.

New Revised Standard Version
The vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to those who can read, with the command, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot, for it is sealed.”

Contemporary English Version
Now his message is like a sealed letter to you. Some of you say, "We can't read it, because it's sealed."

New American Bible
For you the vision of all this has become like the words of a sealed scroll. When it is handed to one who can read, with the request, “Read this,” the reply is, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.

book.

Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

I cannot

Daniel 12:4,9 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time appointed: many shall pass over, and knowledge shall be manifold. . . .

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.

Matthew 13:11 Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

Matthew 16:17 And Jesus answering said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

Revelation 5:1-9 And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals. . . .

Revelation 6:1 And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals: and I heard one of the four living creatures, as it were the voice of thunder, saying: Come and see.

Context
Woe to the City of David
10For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions. 11And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words of a book that is sealed which when they shall deliver to one that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and he shall answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.12And 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.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:11
Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given.

Revelation 5:1
And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals.

Isaiah 8:16
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 28:7
But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Isaiah 29:12
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 29:18
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.

Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time appointed: many shall pass over, and knowledge shall be manifold.

Daniel 12:9
And he said: Go, Daniel, because the words are shut up, and sealed until the appointed time.

Isaiah 29:10
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