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Woe to Ariel (Jerusalem) and Promise of Enlightenment

Isaiah 29:1-24

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Chapter 29
1 Alas for Ariel, Ariel, city where David camped! Add year to year; let the feasts go around. 2 And I will distress Ariel, and she will be a lamentation and a mourning, and she will be to me like Ariel. 3 And I will encamp against you in a siege, and I will besiege you with siegeworks, and I will raise up siege ramps against you. 4 And you will be brought low from the earth; you will speak, and from the dust your voice will come like a medium’s. And your voice will be like a spirit of the dead from the earth, and from the dust your speech will chirp. 5 And it will be like fine dust, the multitude of your strangers, and like chaff that passes away, the multitude of oppressors, and it will be in a moment, in a moment. 6 The LORD of hosts will visit the people with thunder and earthquake and a great voice of storm and tempest and flame of devouring fire. 7 And it will be like a dream, a vision of the night: the multitude of all the nations, the hosts that have arrayed themselves against Ariel and all its hosts and its stronghold, and those besieging it. 8 And it will be as when the hungry one dreams and behold he is eating, and he awakes and his soul is empty; and as when the thirsty one dreams and behold he is drinking, and he awakes and behold he is weary and his soul is craving—so will be the multitude of all the nations, the heavenly host arrayed against Mount Zion. 9 Be astounded and wonder, play around and stagger—from wages. They stagger not from wine, not from strong drink. 10 For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep and has shut your eyes—the prophets—and your heads, the seers, he has covered. 11 And it will be to you all visions like the words of a sealed book, which they give to one who knows books, saying, "Please read this," and he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed." 12 And he gave the book to one who does not know book, saying, "Read this, please," and he said, "I do not know book." 13 And the Lord said, "Because this people draws near with its mouth and honors Me with its lips, but its heart is far from Me, and their fear of Me has become commandments of people, by which they are taught." 14 Therefore behold, I will add to this people a wonder upon a wonder, and the wisdom of their wise ones will perish and the understanding of their prophets will be hidden. 15 Alas, those who deeply hide counsel from the LORD, and their deeds are in darkness, and they say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?" 16 You turn things upside down! Shall the clay be considered like the potter? Shall the work say of its maker, "You did not make me"? Or shall the work say of its maker, "You do not understand"? 17 Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon returns to Carmel, and Carmel becomes a forest? It will be reckoned. 18 And on that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of darkness and out of gloom. 19 And the afflicted in the LORD will increase in joy, and the needy among Adam will exult in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the tyrant has ceased, and the scoffer has come to an end, and they will all be cut off—the watchers of iniquity. 21 Those who make a man sin by a word, and those who deprive the reprover in the gate of justice, and turn aside the righteous into nothingness. 22 Therefore thus says the LORD to the house of Jacob, who redeemed Abraham: "Jacob will not now be ashamed, nor will his face now grow pale." 23 For when he sees his children, the work of his hands in his midst, they will sanctify my name, and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will revere the God of Israel. 24 And those who err in spirit will know understanding, and murmurers will be taught instruction.