Isa29:1 Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year;let the feasts run their round.
Isa29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.
Isa29:3 And I will encamp against you round about, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.
Isa29:4 Then deep from the earth you shall speak, from low in the dust your words shall come;your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Isa29:5 But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
Isa29:6 you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
Isa29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa29:8 As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Isa29:9 Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine;stagger, but not with strong drink!
Isa29:10 For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and covered your heads, the seers.
Isa29:11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, 'Read this,' he says, 'I cannot, for it is sealed.'
Isa29:12 And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, 'Read this,' he says, 'I cannot read.'
Isa29:13 And the Lord said: 'Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;
Isa29:14 therefore, behold, I will again do marvelous things with this people, wonderful and marvelous;and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid.'
Isa29:15 Woe to those who hide deep from the LORD their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, 'Who sees us? Who knows us?'
Isa29:16 You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay;that the thing made should say of its maker, 'He did not make me';or the thing formed say of him who formed it, 'He has no understanding'?
Isa29:17 Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
Isa29:18 In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.
Isa29:19 The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa29:20 For the ruthless shall come to nought and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
Isa29:21 who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.
Isa29:22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: 'Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale.
Isa29:23 For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name;they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Isa29:24 And those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction.'