Isaiah 29
29Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on.H1945H740H740H7151H1732H2583H5595H8141H8141H5362H22822Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.H6693H740H8386H592H7403I will encamp against you all around; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.H2583H1754H6696H4674H6965H46944Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper.H8213H1696H776H565H7817H6083H6963H178H776H565H6850H60835But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,H1995H2114H1851H80H1995H6184H4671H5674H6621H65976the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.H6485H3068H6635H7482H7494H1419H6963H5492H5591H3851H398H7847Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night--H1995H1471H6633H740H6638H4685H6693H2472H3915H23778as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he awakens, and his hunger remains; as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he awakens faint, with his thirst unquenched. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.H7457H2492H398H6974H5315H7386H834H6771H2492H8354H6974H5889H5315H8264H1995H1471H6633H2022H67269Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.H4102H8539H8173H8173H7937H3196H5128H794110The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).H3068H5258H7307H8639H6105H5869H5030H7218H2374H368011For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say to him, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I can't; it is sealed."H2380H1697H5612H2856H5414H3045H559H7121H559H3201H285612Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please," he will answer, "I don't know how to read."H5612H5414H3045H5612H559H7121H559H304513The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.H136H559H3282H5971H5066H6310H8193H3513H7368H3820H7368H3374H3925H4687H58214Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."H3254H6381H5971H6381H6382H2451H2450H6H998H995H564115Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?"H1945H6009H5641H6098H3068H4639H4285H559H7200H304516You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"?H2017H2803H3335H2563H4639H559H6213H6213H3336H559H3335H99517In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?H4213H4592H3844H7725H3759H3759H2803H329318In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.H3117H2795H8085H1697H5612H5869H5787H7200H652H282219Once more the humble will rejoice in the LORD; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.H6035H3254H8057H3068H34H120H1523H6918H347820The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down--H6184H656H3887H3615H8245H205H377221those who with a word make a man out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.H120H2398H1697H6983H3198H8179H5186H6662H841422Therefore this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the house of Jacob: "No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will their faces grow pale.H559H3068H6299H85H1004H3290H3290H954H6440H235723When they see among them their children, the work of my hands, they will keep my name holy; they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.H7200H3206H4639H3027H7130H6942H8034H6942H6918H3290H6206H430H347824Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding; those who complain will accept instruction."H8582H7307H3045H998H7279H3925H3948
Columbus, OH
