| | Chapter
29 |
| 1 | Woe to
Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill
sacrifices. |
| 2 | Yet I will
distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto
me as Ariel. |
| 3 | And I will
camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount,
and I will raise forts against thee. |
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4 | And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the
ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as
of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall
whisper out of the dust. |
| 5 |
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the
multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it
shall be at an instant suddenly. |
| 6
| Thou shalt 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. |
| 7 | And the multitude
of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her
and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night
vision. |
| 8 | It shall even
be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he 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 his 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: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not
with strong drink. |
| 10 |
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed
your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. |
| 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 thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it
is sealed: |
| 12 | And the
book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee:
and he saith, I am not learned. |
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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: |
| 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. |
| 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
seeth us? and who knoweth us? |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 19 | The meek
also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice
in the Holy One of Israel. |
| 20
| For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: |
| 21 | That make a man an offender for a
word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the
just for a thing of nought. |
| 22
| Therefore 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. |
| 23 | But when he
seeth 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. |
| 24 | They also
that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall
learn doctrine. |
