Isaiah 29

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

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

²Yet I will distress ^aAriel,

And there shall be heaviness and sorrow:

And it shall be unto me as ^aAriel.

³And I will ^ccamp against thee ^fround about,

And ^gwill lay siege against thee with ^ha mount,

And I will raise ⁱforts against thee.

⁴And ^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.

⁵Moreover 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.

⁶Thou 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.

^7tAnd 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.

⁸It shall even be as when a 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.

⁹Stay yourselves, and wonder;

Cry ye out, and cry:

^yThey are drunken, ^zbut not with wine;

They stagger, but not with strong drink.

¹⁰For ^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.

^11dAnd the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book ^ethat is sealed,

Which men deliver to one that is learned,

Saying, Read this, I pray thee:

And he saith, I cannot; ^efor it is sealed:

¹²And the book is delivered to him that is not learned,

Saying, Read this, I pray thee:

And he saith, I am not learned.

¹³Wherefore the Lord said,

^fForasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth,

And with their lips do ^ghonour me,

But have removed their heart far from me,

And their fear towards me is taught by ^hthe precept of men:

¹⁴ⁱTherefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work amongst this people,

Even a marvellous work and a wonder:

For ^jthe wisdom of their wise men shall perish,

And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

¹⁵Woe unto ^kthem that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord,

And their works are in the dark,

And ^lthey say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

¹⁶Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay:

For ^mshall the work say of him that made it, He made me not?

Or shall ⁿthe thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

¹⁷Is it not ^oyet a very little while,

And ^pLebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,

^qAnd the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

¹⁸And ^rin that day ^sshall the deaf hear the words of the book,

And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

^19tThe meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord,

And ^uthe poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

²⁰For ^vthe terrible one ^wis brought to nought, and the ^xscorner ^wis consumed,

And all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

²¹That make a man an offender for a word,

And lay a snare for ^yhim that reproveth in the gate,

And ^zturn aside the just ^afor a thing of nought.

²²Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob,

Jacob shall not now be ashamed,

Neither shall his face now wax pale.

²³But when he seeth his children, ^bthe work of mine hands, in the midst of him,

^cThey shall sanctify my name,

And sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,

And shall fear ^dthe God of Israel.

²⁴They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,

And ^ethey that murmured shall learn ^fdoctrine.

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