Yesaya 29:11

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka bagimu penglihatan dari semuanya itu seperti isi sebuah kitab yang termeterai, apabila itu diberikan kepada orang yang tahu membaca dengan mengatakan: "Baiklah baca ini," maka ia akan menjawab: "Aku tidak dapat, sebab kitab itu termeterai";

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka bagimu penglihatan dari semuanya itu seperti isi sebuah kitab yang termeterai, apabila itu diberikan kepada orang yang tahu membaca dengan mengatakan: "Baiklah baca ini," maka ia akan menjawab: "Aku tidak dapat, sebab kitab itu termeterai";

Contextual Overview

⁹ Ponder these thinges once in your mindes, and wonder: Blinded are they them selues, and the blinde guides of other: They are drunken, but not with wine: they are vnstable, but not thorow strong drinke. ¹⁰ For the Lorde hath couered you with a slumbring spirite, and hath closed your eyes: your prophetes also and rulers that shoulde see, them hath he couered. ¹¹ And the vision of all the prophetes is become vnto you as the wordes of a booke that is sealed vp, whiche men deliuer to one that is learned, saying, Reade thou in it: and he saith, I can not, for it is sealed. ¹² And the booke is geuen to him that is not learned, saying, Reade thou in it: and he saith, I am not learned. ¹³ Therfore thus hath the Lorde sayd: Forsomuche as this people when they be in trouble, do honour me with their mouth and with their lippes, but their heart is farre fro me, and the feare whiche they haue vnto me proceedeth of a commaundement that is taught of men: ¹⁴ Therefore wyll I do marueyles among this people, euen marueylous thinges [I say] and a wonder: For the wysdome of their wyse men shall perishe, and the vnderstanding of their wittie men shall hyde it selfe. ¹⁵ Wo vnto them that kepe secrete their thoughtes, to hide their counsell from the Lorde, and to do their workes in darknesse, saying: Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs? ¹⁶ Doubtlesse your destruction is in reputation as the potters clay: And doth the worke say of hym that made it, he made not me? And doth an earthen vessell say of hym that fashioned it, he had no vnderstanding?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

book: or, letter

that is sealed: Isaiah 8:16

I cannot: Daniel 12:4, Daniel 12:9, Matthew 11:25, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 16:17, Revelation 5:1-9, Revelation 6:1

Reciprocal: Isaiah 29:24 - also Isaiah 48:8 - thou heardest Luke 7:32 - are Luke 14:18 - all 1 Corinthians 14:16 - unlearned Revelation 5:2 - Who Revelation 10:4 - Seal up

Cross-References

Genesis 27:26
And his father Isahac said vnto him: Come neare, and kysse me, my sonne.

Genesis 29:13
And when Laban hearde certaynely tell of Iacob his sisters sonne, he ranne to meete hym, and imbraced hym, and kyssed hym, and brought hym to his house: And he tolde Laban all these thynges.

Genesis 29:14
To whom Laban sayde: Well, thou art my bone & my fleshe. And he abode with hym the space of a moneth.

Genesis 29:15
And Laban said vnto Iacob: Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therfore serue me for naught? Tell me what shall thy wages be?

Genesis 43:30
And Ioseph made haste (for his heart did melt vpon his brother) and sought [where] to weepe, and entred into his chaumber and wept there.

Genesis 45:2
And he wept aloude, and the Egyptians, and the house of Pharao heard.

Exodus 4:27
Then said the Lorde vnto Aaron: go meete Moyses in the wyldernesse. And he went and met him in the mounte of God, and kissed him.

Exodus 18:7
And Moyses went out to meete his father in lawe, and did obeysaunce, and kyssed hym: and eche asked other of his health, and they came into the tent.

Romans 16:16
Salute one an other with an holy kysse. The Churches of Christ salute you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed,.... The prophecies of all the prophets contained in the Scriptures; or all the prophecies in the book of Isaiah, concerning the Messiah, were no more seen, known, and understood, both by the priests and the people, than if they had been in a book, written, rolled up, and sealed. And this was owing, not to the obscurity of these writings, or because they were really sealed up, but to the blindness and stupidity of the people, whose eyes were closed, and their heads covered; and the prophecies of the Scriptures were only so to them, "unto you", not unto others; not to the apostles of Christ, whose understandings were opened by him, to understand the things written concerning him, in the law, in the prophets, and in the psalms; but the Jewish rulers, civil and ecclesiastical, as well as the common people, understood them not, though they were the means of fulfilling many of them; and they were as ignorant of the prophecies concerning their own ruin and destruction, for their rejection of Christ; see Luke 24:27:

which [men] deliver to one that is learned; or, "that knows the book" u; or "letters", as the Septuagint; see John 7:15 such were the Scribes, called γραμματεις, or "letter men", men that could read well, and understood language:

saying, Read this, I pray thee; or read this now, as the Targum, and interpret it, and tell the meaning of it:

and he saith, I cannot, for it [is] sealed; which Kimchi says was an excuse invented, because he had no mind to read it, or otherwise he could have said, open, and I will read it; or he might have broke off the seal; but knowing there were difficult things, and things hard to be understood, in it, did not care to look into it, and read it, and attempt to explain it to others.

u יודע הספר "scienti librum", Montanus; επισταμενω γραμματα, Sept.; "scienti literas", V. L. Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the vision of all - The vision of all the prophets; that is, all the revelations which God has made to you (see the note at Isaiah 1:1). The prophet refers not only to his own communications, but to those of his contemporaries, and of all who had gone before him. The sense is, that although they had the communications which God had made to them, yet they did not understand them. They were as ignorant of their true nature as a man who can read is of the contents of a letter that is sealed up, or as a man who cannot read is of the contents of a book that is handed to him.

As the words of a book - Margin, ‘Letter.’ The word ספר sêpher may mean either. It properly means anything which is “written” (Deuteronomy 24:1, Deuteronomy 24:3; Jeremiah 32:11; Daniel 1:4), but is commonly applied to a book Exodus 17:14; Joshua 1:8; Joshua 8:34; Psalms 40:8.

That is sealed - (see the note at Isaiah 8:16).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 29:11. I cannot; for it is sealed - "I cannot read it; for it is sealed up."] An ancient MS. and the Septuagint have preserved a word here, lost out of the text; לקרות likroth, (for לקראות,) αναγνωναι, read it.