If your GOOD told you, it was because your EVIL helped you! Listen to yourself!

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Prophets Who Fool Themselves

9 Be shocked and stunned, you prophets!

Refuse to see. 

Get drunk and stagger, but not from wine.

10 The Lord has made you drowsy; he put you into a deep sleep and covered your head.

11 Now his message is like a sealed letter to you. Some of you say, “We can't read it, because it's sealed.” 12 Others say, “We can't read it, because we don't know how to read.”

13 The Lord has said:

“These people praise me with their words, but they never really think about me.

They worship me by repeating rules made up by humans.

14 So once again I will do things that shock and amaze them, and I will destroy the wisdom

of those who claim to know and understand.”

15 You are in for trouble, if you try to hide your plans from the Lord!

Or if you think what you do in the dark can't be seen.

16 You have it all backwards.

A clay dish doesn't say to the potter, “You didn't make me.

You don't even know how.”

Hope for the Future

17 Soon the forest of Lebanon will become a field with crops, thick as a forest.

18 The deaf will be able to hear whatever is read to them; the blind will be freed from a life of darkness.

19 The poor and the needy will celebrate and shout because of the Lord, the holy God of Israel.

20 All who are cruel and arrogant will be gone forever. Those who live by crime will disappear, 21 together with everyone who tells lies in court and keeps innocent people from getting a fair trial.

22 The Lord who rescued Abraham has this to say about Jacob's descendants:

“They will no longer be ashamed and disgraced.

23 When they see how great I have made their nation, they will praise and honor me, the holy God of Israel.

24 Everyone who is confused will understand, and all who have complained will obey my teaching.”