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ULT ISA Chapter 29

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29 Woe, Ariel, Ariel,

the city where David encamped!

Add year to year;

let the festivals come round.

2 And I shall cause distress to Ariel,

and she will be mourning and lamenting;

and she will be to me like Ariel.

3 And I shall encamp against you in a circle

and lay siege against you with siege-works,

and raise against you fortresses.

4 And you will be brought down and will speak from the ground;

your speech will be low from the dust,

and your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground,

and out of the dust your speech will whisper.

5 And the horde of your strangers will be like fine dust,

and the horde of the oppressors as chaff passing through.

And it will happen suddenly, in an instant.

6 She will be visited by Yahweh of hosts

with thunder and with earthquake and a great noise,

a storm and a tempest and the flames of a devouring fire.

7 And it will be like a dream, a vision of the night:

A horde of all the nations will come out against Ariel

and all her assembly and her stronghold, and they will press upon her.

8 And it will be like a hungry dreamer; and behold: he is eating,

but he awakes, and his stomach is empty.

Or, like a thirsty dreamer; and behold: he is drinking,

but he awakes, and behold: he is fainting and his thirst active.

So will be the throng of all the nations

coming out against Mount Zion.

9 Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind!

Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 For Yahweh has poured out on you

the spirit of deep sleep

and has closed your eyes, the prophets,

and has covered your heads, the seers.

11 And all revelation has become to you as the words of a sealed book, that which one might give to one who is book-learned, saying, “Please read this.” And he says, “I am not able, for it is sealed,” 12 or if the book is given to one who is not book-learned, saying, “Please read this,” and he says, “I am not book-learned.”

13 And the Lord said,

“Because this people comes close with its mouths

and honors me with its lips,

but its heart is far from me,

and their fear for me

is a commandment of men that has been taught!

14 Therefore, behold, I shall continue to do wonders with this people,

making wonders and wonders.

And the wisdom of its wise will perish,

and the understanding of its discerning will hide itself.”

15 Woe, those burying deeply

to hide a plan from Yahweh,

and in darkness are their deeds, and they say,

“Who sees us, and who knows us?”

16 You reverse things!

Should the potter be considered like clay,

so the made should say of its maker,

“He did not make me,”

or the created say of its creator,

“He does not understand”?

17 Is it not in just a very little time that Lebanon will be turned into a field,

and the field will be considered a forest?

18 And on that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,

and from the deep and from the darkness,

the eyes of the blind will see.

19 And the poor will again be glad in Yahweh,

and the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the ruthless will cease,

and the scoffer will vanish,

and all those lying in wait for evil will be cut down,

21 who make a man guilty with a word

and lay a trap for the judge at the gate

and turn away the righteous with emptiness.

22 Therefore, thus says Yahweh—who redeemed Abraham—to the house of Jacob:

“Now Jacob will not be ashamed,

and now his face will not be pale.

23 But when he sees his children,

the work of my hands, in his midst,

they will sanctify my name,

and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob

and the God of Israel they will fear.

24 And those erring in spirit will know understanding,

and complainers will learn knowledge.”