Isaiah:29

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* Woe to (note :)Or Ariel : the Hebrew word Ariel signifies the Lion of God , and signifies the Altar , because the altar seemed to devour the sacrifice that was offered to God , as in ( Eze_43:16 ).(:note ) Ariel , to Ariel , the city [where ] David dwelt ! add ye year to year ; Your vain confidence in your sacrifices will not last long . let them kill sacrifices . * Yet I will distress Ariel , and there shall be heaviness and sorrow : and it shall be to me (note :)Your city will be full of blood as an altar on which they sacrifice .(:note ) as Ariel . * And I wil besiege thee as a circle , and fight against thee on a mount , and will cast vp ramparts against thee . * And thou shalt be brought down , [and ] shalt speak out of the (note :)Your speech will be no longer be so lofty but abased and low as the very charmers who are in low places and whisper , so that their voice can scarcely by heard .(:note ) ground , and thy speech shall be low out of the dust , and thy voice shall be , like a medium , out of the ground , and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust . * Moreover the multitude of thy (note :)Your hired soldiers in whom you trusted , will be destroyed as dust or chaff in a whirlwind .(:note ) 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 . * Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hostes with thunder , and shaking , and a great noyse , a whirlewinde , and a tempest , and a flame of a deuouring fire . * And the (note :)The enemies that I will bring to destroy you , and that which you place your vain trust in will come at unawares even as a dream in the night . Some read as if this was a comfort to the Church for the destruction of their enemies .(:note ) multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel , even all that fight against her and her strong hold , and that distress her , shall be as a dream of a night vision . * It shall even be as when an hungry [man ] dreameth , and , behold , (note :)That is , he thinks that he eats .(:note ) 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 . * * For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber , and hath shut vp your eyes : the Prophets , &amp ; your chiefe Seers hath he couered . * And the vision of all is become to 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 (note :)Meaning , that it is all alike , either to read , or not to read , unless God open the heart to understand .(:note ) cannot ; for it [is ] sealed : * And the booke is giuen vnto him that can not reade , saying , Reade this , I pray thee ; he shall say , I can not reade . * Wherefore the Lord said , Forasmuch as this people (note :)Because they are hypocrites and not sincere in heart , as in ( Mat_15:7-8 ).(:note ) draw near [me ] with their mouth , and with their lips do honour me , but have removed their heart far from me , and their That is , their religion was learned by man 's doctrine , and not by my word . fear toward me is taught by the precept of men : * Therefore , behold , I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people , [even ] an wonderful work and a wonder : for the wisdom of their wise [men ] shall (note :)Meaning , where God is not worshipped according to his word , both magistrates and ministers are fools and without understanding .(:note ) perish , and the understanding of their prudent [men ] shall be hid . * Woe to them that (note :)This is spoken of them who in heart despised God 's word , and mocked at the admonitions but outwardly bore a good face .(:note ) 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 ? * Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed (note :)For all your craft says the Lord , you are not able to escape my hands any more than the clay that is in the potter 's hands has power to deliver itself .(:note ) as the potter 's clay : for shall the work say of him that made it , He made me not ? or shall the thing formed say of him that formed it , He had no understanding ? * [Is ] it not yet a very little while , and Lebanon shall be (note :)Will there not be a change of all things ? Carmel is a plentiful place in respect to what it will be then and may be taken for a forest , as in ( Isa_32:15 ) and thus he speaks to comfort the faithful .(:note ) turned into a fruitful field , and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest ? * And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke , and the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie , and out of darkenesse . * The meeke in the Lorde shall receiue ioye againe , and the poore men shall reioyce in the holy one of Israel . * For the cruel man shal cease , &amp ; the scornefull shalbe consumed : and all that hasted to iniquitie , shalbe cut off : * That make a man an offender for a (note :)They who went about to find fault with the prophets words , and would not abide admonitions , but would entangle them and bring them into danger .(:note ) word , and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate , and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing . * Therefore thus sayth the Lorde vnto the house of Iaakob , euen hee that redeemed Abraham , Iaakob shall not now be confounded , neither now shal his face be pale . * But when he seeth his children , the worke of mine hands , in the mids of him , they shal sanctifie my Name , and sanctifie the holy one of Iaakob , and shal feare the God of Israel . * They also that erred in spirit (note :)Signifying that unless God gives understanding and knowledge , man cannot but still err and murmur against him .(:note ) shall come to understanding , and they that murmured shall learn doctrine .

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