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Blind Yourselves So That You See Nothing

29Doom, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David set camp! Let the years add up, let the festivals run their cycles,H1945H740H740H7151H1732H2583H5595H8141H8141H5362H2282 2But I'm not letting up on Jerusalem. The moaning and groaning will continue. Jerusalem to me is an Ariel.H6693H740H8386H592H740 3Like David, I'll set up camp against you. I'll set siege, build towers, bring in siege engines, build siege ramps.H2583H1754H6696H4674H6965H4694 4Driven into the ground, you'll speak, you'll mumble words from the dirt— Your voice from the ground, like the muttering of a ghost. Your speech will whisper from the dust.H8213H1696H776H565H7817H6083H6963H178H776H565H6850H6083 5But it will be your enemies who are beaten to dust, the mob of tyrants who will be blown away like chaff. Because, surprise, as if out of nowhere,H1995H2114H1851H80H1995H6184H4671H5674H6621H6597 6a visit from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, With thunderclaps, earthquakes, and earsplitting noise, backed up by hurricanes, tornadoes, and lightning strikes,H6485H3068H6635H7482H7494H1419H6963H5492H5591H3851H398H784 7And the mob of enemies at war with Ariel, all who trouble and hassle and torment her, will turn out to be a bad dream, a nightmare.H1995H1471H6633H740H6638H4685H6693H2472H3915H2377 8Like a hungry man dreaming he's eating steak and wakes up hungry as ever, Like a thirsty woman dreaming she's drinking iced tea and wakes up thirsty as ever, So that mob of nations at war against Mount Zion will wake up and find they haven't shot an arrow, haven't killed a single soul.H7457H2492H398H6974H5315H7386H834H6771H2492H8354H6974H5889H5315H8264H1995H1471H6633H2022H6726 9Drug yourselves so you feel nothing. Blind yourselves so you see nothing. Get drunk, but not on wine. Black out, but not from whiskey.H4102H8539H8173H8173H7937H3196H5128H7941 10For GOD has rocked you into a deep, deep sleep, put the discerning prophets to sleep, put the farsighted seers to sleep.H3068H5258H7307H8639H6105H5869H5030H7218H2374H3680

You Have Everything Backward

11What you've been shown here is somewhat like a letter in a sealed envelope. If you give it to someone who can read and tell her, "Read this," she'll say, "I can't. The envelope is sealed."H2380H1697H5612H2856H5414H3045H559H7121H559H3201H2856 12And if you give it to someone who can't read and tell him, "Read this," he'll say, "I can't read."H5612H5414H3045H5612H559H7121H559H3045 13The Master said: "These people make a big show of saying the right thing, but their hearts aren't in it. Because they act like they're worshiping me but don't mean it,H136H559H3282H5971H5066H6310H8193H3513H7368H3820H7368H3374H3925H4687H582 14I'm going to step in and shock them awake, astonish them, stand them on their ears. The wise ones who had it all figured out will be exposed as fools. The smart people who thought they knew everything will turn out to know nothing."H3254H6381H5971H6381H6382H2451H2450H6H998H995H5641 15Doom to you! You pretend to have the inside track. You shut GOD out and work behind the scenes, Plotting the future as if you knew everything, acting mysterious, never showing your hand.H1945H6009H5641H6098H3068H4639H4285H559H7200H3045 16You have everything backwards! You treat the potter as a lump of clay. Does a book say to its author, "He didn't write a word of me"? Does a meal say to the woman who cooked it, "She had nothing to do with this"?H2017H2803H3335H2563H4639H559H6213H6213H3336H559H3335H995 17And then before you know it, and without you having anything to do with it, Wasted Lebanon will be transformed into lush gardens, and Mount Carmel reforested.H4213H4592H3844H7725H3759H3759H2803H3293 18At that time the deaf will hear word-for-word what's been written. After a lifetime in the dark, the blind will see.H3117H2795H8085H1697H5612H5869H5787H7200H652H2822 19The castoffs of society will be laughing and dancing in GOD, the down-and-outs shouting praise to The Holy of Israel.H6035H3254H8057H3068H34H120H1523H6918H3478 20For there'll be no more gangs on the street. Cynical scoffers will be an extinct species. Those who never missed a chance to hurt or demean will never be heard of again:H6184H656H3887H3615H8245H205H3772 21Gone the people who corrupted the courts, gone the people who cheated the poor, gone the people who victimized the innocent.H120H2398H1697H6983H3198H8179H5186H6662H8414 22And finally this, GOD's Message for the family of Jacob, the same GOD who redeemed Abraham: "No longer will Jacob hang his head in shame, no longer grow gaunt and pale with waiting.H559H3068H6299H85H1004H3290H3290H954H6440H2357 23For he's going to see his children, my personal gift to him—lots of children. And these children will honor me by living holy lives. In holy worship they'll honor the Holy One of Jacob and stand in holy awe of the God of Israel.H7200H3206H4639H3027H7130H6942H8034H6942H6918H3290H6206H430H3478 24Those who got off-track will get back on-track, and complainers and whiners learn gratitude."H8582H7307H3045H998H7279H3925H3948


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