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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 29
29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add all of
you year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow:
and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will camp against you round about, and will lay siege against
you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.
29:4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground,
and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be,
as of one that has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech
shall whisper out of the dust.
29:5 Moreover the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust,
and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away:
yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
29:6 You shall be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring
fire.
29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her,
shall be as a dream of a night vision.
29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreams, and, behold, he
eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams,
and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his
soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight
against mount Zion.
29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry all of you out, and cry: they
are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
29:10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he
covered.
29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book
that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read
this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:
29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,
Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.
29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me
with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their
heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of
men:
29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among
this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their
wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall
be hid.
29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD,
and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows
us?
29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as
the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made
me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no
understanding?
29:17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned
into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and
the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
29:19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor
among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him
that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.
29:22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning
the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face
now wax pale.
29:23 But when he sees his children, the work of mine hands, in the
midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of
Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and
they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
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