Isaiah 29 Footnotes

29:9-10 Although people shut themselves off from God’s truth, in the larger perspective the understanding of God’s sovereignty required the prophet to recognize their refusal to hear as the action of God himself for purposes of judgment. Isaiah was confronted with the same issue in 6:9-10. When people, even supposed prophets and seers, blind themselves to the genuine message from the Lord and fall into a drunken-like stupor, eventually God will shut their eyes to the truth and judge them (Rm 1:21-25).