Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageEvery vision has become to you like the words of a sealed book. Hand it to someone who can read and say, 'Read this, please'—and they answer, 'I can't. It's sealed.'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GThe whole of the vision has become for you like the words of a sealed scroll: when it is handed to one who can read and he is told, 'Please read this,' he answers, 'I cannot—it is sealed.'
KJV
King James VersionAnd the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
BSB
Berean Standard BibleAnd the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
Footnotes
The sealed scroll becomes a powerful intertextual thread: Daniel is told to seal his vision until the time of the end (Daniel 12:4), and the sealed scroll in Revelation 5—which only the Lamb can open—draws directly on both this Isaianic passage and Daniel. The crucial point here is not illiteracy but the withdrawal of divine revelation itself: both the educated and the uneducated are equally helpless. The problem is not capacity but access—and access belongs to YHWH alone. FOG uses "scroll" to anchor the ancient medium and tie directly to the sealed-scroll imagery; FOG Message uses "book" for immediacy while preserving the same theological force.
