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Isaiah 29
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The Fate of Jerusalem

29God's altar, Jerusalem itself, is doomed! The city where David camped is doomed! Let another year or two come and go, with its feasts and festivals,H1945H740H740H7151H1732H2583H5595H8141H8141H5362H2282
2and then God will bring disaster on the city that is called "God's altar." There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an altar covered with blood.H6693H740H8386H592H740
3God will attack the city, surround it, and besiege it.H2583H1754H6696H4674H6965H4694
4Jerusalem will be like a ghost struggling to speak from under the ground, a muffled voice coming from the dust.H8213H1696H776H565H7817H6083H6963H178H776H565H6850H6083
5Jerusalem, all the foreigners who attack you will be blown away like dust, and their terrifying armies will fly away like straw. Suddenly and unexpectedlyH1995H2114H1851H80H1995H6184H4671H5674H6621H6597
6the LORD Almighty will rescue you with violent thunderstorms and earthquakes. He will send windstorms and raging fire;H6485H3068H6635H7482H7494H1419H6963H5492H5591H3851H398H784
7then all the armies of the nations attacking the city of God's altar, all their weapons and equipment - everything - will vanish like a dream, like something imagined in the night.H1995H1471H6633H740H6638H4685H6693H2472H3915H2377
8All the nations that assemble to attack Jerusalem will be like a starving person who dreams he is eating and wakes up hungry, or like someone dying of thirst who dreams he is drinking and wakes with a dry throat.H7457H2492H398H6974H5315H7386H834H6771H2492H8354H6974H5889H5315H8264H1995H1471H6633H2022H6726

Disregarded Warnings

9Go ahead and be stupid! Go ahead and be blind! Get drunk without any wine! Stagger without drinking a drop!H4102H8539H8173H8173H7937H3196H5128H7941
10The LORD has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blindfolded them.H3068H5258H7307H8639H6105H5869H5030H7218H2374H3680
11The meaning of every prophetic vision will be hidden from you; it will be like a sealed scroll. If you take it to someone who knows how to read and ask him to read it to you, he will say he can't because it is sealed.H2380H1697H5612H2856H5414H3045H559H7121H559H3201H2856
12If you give it to someone who can't read and ask him to read it to you, he will answer that he doesn't know how.H5612H5414H3045H5612H559H7121H559H3045
13The Lord said, "These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.H136H559H3282H5971H5066H6310H8193H3513H7368H3820H7368H3374H3925H4687H582
14So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless."H3254H6381H5971H6381H6382H2451H2450H6H998H995H5641

Hope for the Future

15Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are doomed! They carry out their schemes in secret and think no one will see them or know what they are doing.H1945H6009H5641H6098H3068H4639H4285H559H7200H3045
16They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, "You didn't make me"? Or can it say, "You don't know what you are doing"?H2017H2803H3335H2563H4639H559H6213H6213H3336H559H3335H995
17As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.H4213H4592H3844H7725H3759H3759H2803H3293
18When that day comes, the deaf will be able to hear a book being read aloud, and the blind, who have been living in darkness, will open their eyes and see.H3117H2795H8085H1697H5612H5869H5787H7200H652H2822
19Poor and humble people will once again find the happiness which the LORD, the holy God of Israel, gives.H6035H3254H8057H3068H34H120H1523H6918H3478
20It will be the end of those who oppress others and show contempt for God. Every sinner will be destroyed.H6184H656H3887H3615H8245H205H3772
21God will destroy those who slander others, those who prevent the punishment of criminals, and those who tell lies to keep honest people from getting justice.H120H2398H1697H6983H3198H8179H5186H6662H8414
22So now the LORD, the God of Israel, who rescued Abraham from trouble, says, "My people, you will not be disgraced any longer, and your faces will no longer be pale with shame.H559H3068H6299H85H1004H3290H3290H954H6440H2357
23When you see the children that I will give you, then you will acknowledge that I am the holy God of Israel. You will honor me and stand in awe of me.H7200H3206H4639H3027H7130H6942H8034H6942H6918H3290H6206H430H3478
24Foolish people will learn to understand, and those who are always grumbling will be glad to be taught."H8582H7307H3045H998H7279H3925H3948


Good News Translation. Scripture taken from the Good News Translation in Today’s English Version- Second Edition Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. More details.
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