Isaiah:29

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* Woe to Ariel , to Ariel , the city [where ] David dwelt ! Add year to year ; let them kill their sacrifices . * Then I will distress Ariel , and there shall be heaviness and sorrow ; and it shall be to me as Ariel . * And I will camp against you all around , and will lay siege against you with a mount , and I will raise forts against you . * And you shall be brought down ; you shall speak out of the ground , and your speech shall be low out of the dust , and your voice shall be like a spiritist , out of the ground , and your speech shall whisper out of the dust . * And the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust , and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be ] as chaff that passes away ; yea , it shall be at an instant , suddenly . * You shall be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder , and with earthquake and great noise , with storm and whirlwind , and the flame of devouring fire . * And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel , even all who fight against her and her stronghold , and who distress her , shall be like a dream of a night vision . * It shall even be as when a hungry one dreams , and behold , he eats , but he wakes and his soul is empty ; or as when a thirsty man dreams , and behold , he drinks ; but he awakes , and behold , [he is ] faint and his soul is longing . So shall it be with the multitude of all the nations who fight against mount Zion . * Stand still and wonder ! Blind your eyes and be blind ! They are drunk , but not with wine ; they stagger , but not [with ] strong drink . * For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep , and has closed your eyes ; He has covered the prophets and your heads , the seers . * And the vision of all has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed , which they give to one who knows books saying , Please read this ; and he says , I cannot , for it is sealed . * And the book is delivered to him who does not know books , saying , Please read this ; and he says , I do not know books . * And the LORD said , Because this people draw near [Me ] with their mouth , and with their lips honor Me , but have removed their heart far from Me , and their fear toward Me is taught by the command of men ; * therefore , behold , I will go on doing among this people , a wonder , even a wonder . For the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish , and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hidden . * Woe [to ] those who go deep to hide [their ] purpose from the LORD ! And their works are in the dark , and they say , Who sees us ? And who knows us ? * O your perversity ! Shall the former be counted as the potter 's clay ; for shall the work say of him who made it , He did not make me ? Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it , He had no understanding ? * [Is ] it not yet a very little while , and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field , and the fruitful field shall be counted as a forest ? * And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book , and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their gloom and darkness . * And the meek shall increase joy in the LORD , and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel . * For the terrible one is brought to nothing , and the scorner is destroyed , and all that watch for iniquity are cut off ; * those who make a man guilty by a word , and lay a trap for the reprover in the gate , and turn aside the just for a worthless thing . * Therefore so says the LORD , who redeemed Abraham , concerning the house of Jacob : Jacob shall not now be ashamed , nor shall his face now become pale . * But when he sees his children , the work of My hands , in his midst , they shall sanctify My name , and sanctify the Holy one of Jacob , and shall fear the God of Israel . * Those who erred in spirit shall come to understanding , and those who murmured shall learn doctrine .

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