Isaiah 29:1–10

||Woe to aAriel, to Ariel, ||the city bwhere David cdwelt!

Add ye year to year; let them †dkill esacrifices.

2  Yet I will distress aAriel,

And there shall be heaviness and sorrow:

And it shall be unto me as aAriel.

3  And I will ccamp against thee fround about,

And gwill lay siege against thee with ha mount,

And I will raise iforts against thee.

4  And kthou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground,

And lthy speech shall be low out of the dust,

And thy voice shall be, as of mone that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,

And thy speech shall †mwhisper out of the dust.

5  Moreover the multitude of thy nstrangers shall be like small dust,

And the multitude of nthe terrible ones shall be oas chaff that passeth away:

Yea, it shall be pat an instant suddenly.

6  Thou shalt be qvisited of the Lord of hosts

With thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,

With rstorm and tempest, and sthe flame of devouring fire.

7  tAnd the multitude of all the nations that fight against aAriel,

Even all that fight against her and her umunition, and that distress her,

Shall be vas a dream of a night vision.

8  It shall even be as when an hungry man vwdreameth, and, behold, he eateth;

But whe awaketh, and his soul is empty:

Or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh;

But he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and xhis soul hath appetite:

So shall the multitude of all the nations be,

That fight against mount Zion.

9  Stay yourselves, and wonder;

||Cry ye out, and cry:

yThey are drunken, zbut not with wine;

They stagger, but not with strong drink.

10  For athe Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of bdeep sleep,

And hath cclosed your eyes:

The prophets and your †rulers, the seers hath he covered.