Isaiah 29
29Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals run their round.H1945H740H740H7151H1732H2583H5595H8141H8141H5362H22822Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and Jerusalem shall be to me like an Ariel.H6693H740H8386H592H7403And like David I will encamp against you; I will besiege you with towers and raise siegeworks against you.H2583H1754H6696H4674H6965H46944Then 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.H8213H1696H776H565H7817H6083H6963H178H776H565H6850H60835But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,H1995H2114H1851H80H1995H6184H4671H5674H6621H65976you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.H6485H3068H6635H7482H7494H1419H6963H5492H5591H3851H398H7847And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.H1995H1471H6633H740H6638H4685H6693H2472H3915H23778Just as when a hungry person dreams of eating and wakes up still hungry, or a thirsty person dreams of drinking and wakes up faint, still thirsty, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.H7457H2492H398H6974H5315H7386H834H6771H2492H8354H6974H5889H5315H8264H1995H1471H6633H2022H67269Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not from wine; stagger, but not from strong drink!H4102H8539H8173H8173H7937H3196H5128H794110For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes, you prophets, and covered your heads, you seers.H3068H5258H7307H8639H6105H5869H5030H7218H2374H368011The vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to those who can read, with the command, "Read this," they say, "We cannot, for it is sealed."H2380H1697H5612H2856H5414H3045H559H7121H559H3201H285612And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, "Read this," they say, "We cannot read."H5612H5414H3045H5612H559H7121H559H304513The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote;H136H559H3282H5971H5066H6310H8193H3513H7368H3820H7368H3374H3925H4687H58214so I will again do amazing things with this people, shocking and amazing. The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.H3254H6381H5971H6381H6382H2451H2450H6H998H995H564115Ha! You who hide a plan too deep for the LORD, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"H1945H6009H5641H6098H3068H4639H4285H559H7200H304516You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, "He has no understanding"?H2017H2803H3335H2563H4639H559H6213H6213H3336H559H3335H99517Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?H4213H4592H3844H7725H3759H3759H2803H329318On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.H3117H2795H8085H1697H5612H5869H5787H7200H652H282219The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the neediest people shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.H6035H3254H8057H3068H34H120H1523H6918H347820For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall cease to be; all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—H6184H656H3887H3615H8245H205H377221those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate, and without grounds deny justice to the one in the right.H120H2398H1697H6983H3198H8179H5186H6662H841422Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: No longer shall Jacob be ashamed, no longer shall his face grow pale.H559H3068H6299H85H1004H3290H3290H954H6440H235723For 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.H7200H3206H4639H3027H7130H6942H8034H6942H6918H3290H6206H430H347824And those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.H8582H7307H3045H998H7279H3925H3948
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