Isaias

XXIX. 1 Ah, Ariel, Ariel, city (where) David camped! add ye year to year; let the feasts go round.

2 And I will distress Ariel, and there shall be lamentation and lament; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.

3 And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay ’ siege against thee with a mound, and raise siege works against thee :

4 And thou shalt be brought down, out of the earth shalt thou speak, and thy speech shall come low from the dust; and thy voice shall be as that of a ghost from the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.

5 And the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones like passing chaff; and it shall be in a moment suddenly.

6 From the LORD of Hosts shall she be visited with thunder, and earthquake, and great noise; whirlwind, and tempest, and flame of devouring fire.

7 And as a dream, a vision of the night, shall the multitude of all the nations be, that are arrayed against Ariel, even all that are arrayed against her and her fortress, and distress her.

8 And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth ; and he awaketh, and his SOul is empty; and as a thirsty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; and he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul craveth; so shall all the multitude of the nations be, that are arrayed against mount Zion.

9 Astonish yourselves, and be astonished; blind yourselves, and be blind: they are drunken, and not with wine; they reel, and not with strong drink.

10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and bath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.

11 And the vision of it all is become unto you as the words of the sealed writing, which they give ’ to one that knoweth writing, saying, Read this, pray: and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.

12 And the writing is given unto one that knoweth not writing, saying, Read this, pray; and he saith, I know not writing.

13 And the Lord said, F orasmuch as this people draweth near, honoureth me with its mouth and with its lips; and hath removed its heart away from me; and their fear of me is a precept of men, that is taught:

14 Therefore, behold, I am he that will again deal wonderquy with this people, wonderfully and a wonder; and the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, andthe discernment of its discerning men shall hide itself.

15 Ah, they that go deep from the Lord to hide counsel and their-works are in darkness, and they say, Who seeth us? and Who knoweth us?

16 The perverseness of you! shall the potter be reckoned as clay? that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not! and the thing formed of him that formed it, ’ discerneth not!

17 Is it not yet but a very little while, and Lebanon shall turn to garden-land, and the garden-land be reckoned as a forest?

18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a writing, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and out of darkness.

19 And the meek shall add to their. joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one is at an end, and all is overylwith the scoffer, and that watched for iniquity are cut off .