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Isaiah 29
Revised Geneva Translation
Isaiah 29
Revised Geneva Translation
29 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city in which David dwelt! Add year to year. Let them kill lambs.
2 But I will bring Ariel into distress. And there shall be heaviness and sorrow. And it shall be to Me like Ariel.
3 And I will besiege you with a circle, and fight against you on a siege mount, and will cast up ramparts against you.
4 So shall you be humbled, and shall speak from the ground. And your speech shall be from the dust. Your voice, also, shall be from the ground, like one who has a spirit of divination. And your talking shall whisper from the dust.
5 Moreover, many of your strangers shall be like small dust. And the multitude of strong men shall be as chaff that passes away. And it shall be in a moment, suddenly.
6 You shall be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder, and shaking, and a great noise, a whirlwind, and a tempest, and a flame of a devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel shall be as a dream, a vision by night, all those who make the war against it and strongholds against it and lay siege to it.
8 And it shall be like a hungry man dreams: And behold, he eats. And when he awakens, his soul is empty. Or like a thirsty man dreams: And lo, he is drinking. And when he awakens, behold, he faints. And his soul longs. So shall the multitude of all nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
9 Wait and wonder. Blind yourself and be blinded. They are drunk, but not with wine. They stagger, but not by strong drink.
10 For the LORD has covered you with a spirit of slumber and has shut your eyes. He has covered the Prophet and your chief Seers.
11 And all their visions have become to you as the words of a book that is sealed up, which they deliver to one who can read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
12 And the book is given to him who cannot read, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot read.”
13 Therefore, the LORD said, “Because this people comes near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but has removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me was taught by the precept of men,
14 “therefore behold, I will again do a marvelous work in this people, a marvelous work and a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
15 “Woe to those who seek deeply to hide counsel from the LORD. For their works are in darkness. And they say, ‘Who sees us?’ and, ‘Who knows us?’
16 “You pervert things. Shall the potter be thought the same as the clay? For shall the work say of him who made it, ‘He did not make me,’ or the thing formed say of him who fashioned it, ‘He has no understanding’?
17 “Is it not but a little while before Lebanon shall be turned into Carmel, and Carmel shall be counted as a forest?
18 “And on 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 in the LORD shall receive joy again. And the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 “For the cruel man shall cease and the scornful shall be consumed. And all who hurried to iniquity shall be cut off,
21 “who made a man sin with words and took him who reproved in the gate in a snare and made the just fall without cause.”
22 Therefore, thus says the LORD to the House of Jacob, He who redeemed Abraham: “Jacob shall not be confounded now, nor shall his face be pale now.
23 “But when he sees his children, the work of My 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 “Then, those who erred in spirit shall have understanding. And those who murmured shall learn doctrine.”
Isaiah 29
New International Version
Isaiah 29
New International Version
Woe to David’s City
29 Woe(A) to you, Ariel, Ariel,(B)
the city(C) where David settled!
Add year to year
and let your cycle of festivals(D) go on.
2 Yet I will besiege Ariel;(E)
she will mourn and lament,(F)
she will be to me like an altar hearth.[a](G)
3 I will encamp against you on all sides;
I will encircle(H) you with towers
and set up my siege works(I) against you.
4 Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
your speech will mumble(J) out of the dust.(K)
Your voice will come ghostlike(L) from the earth;
out of the dust your speech will whisper.(M)
5 But your many enemies will become like fine dust,(N)
the ruthless(O) hordes like blown chaff.(P)
Suddenly,(Q) in an instant,
6 the Lord Almighty will come(R)
with thunder(S) and earthquake(T) and great noise,
with windstorm and tempest(U) and flames of a devouring fire.(V)
7 Then the hordes of all the nations(W) that fight against Ariel,(X)
that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,(Y)
with a vision in the night—
8 as when a hungry person dreams of eating,
but awakens(Z) hungry still;
as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,
but awakens faint and thirsty still.(AA)
So will it be with the hordes of all the nations
that fight against Mount Zion.(AB)
9 Be stunned and amazed,(AC)
blind yourselves and be sightless;(AD)
be drunk,(AE) but not from wine,(AF)
stagger,(AG) but not from beer.
10 The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:(AH)
He has sealed your eyes(AI) (the prophets);(AJ)
he has covered your heads (the seers).(AK)
11 For you this whole vision(AL) is nothing but words sealed(AM) in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”
13 The Lord says:
“These people(AN) come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,(AO)
but their hearts are far from me.(AP)
Their worship of me
is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[b](AQ)
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder;(AR)
the wisdom of the wise(AS) will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.(AT)”
15 Woe to those who go to great depths
to hide(AU) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us?(AV) Who will know?”(AW)
16 You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!(AX)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed(AY) it,
“You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,(AZ)
“You know nothing”?(BA)
17 In a very short time,(BB) will not Lebanon(BC) be turned into a fertile field(BD)
and the fertile field seem like a forest?(BE)
18 In that day(BF) the deaf(BG) will hear the words of the scroll,
and out of gloom and darkness(BH)
the eyes of the blind will see.(BI)
19 Once more the humble(BJ) will rejoice in the Lord;
the needy(BK) will rejoice in the Holy One(BL) of Israel.
20 The ruthless(BM) will vanish,(BN)
the mockers(BO) will disappear,
and all who have an eye for evil(BP) will be cut down—
21 those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,
who ensnare the defender in court(BQ)
and with false testimony(BR) deprive the innocent of justice.(BS)
22 Therefore this is what the Lord, who redeemed(BT) Abraham,(BU) says to the descendants of Jacob:
“No longer will Jacob be ashamed;(BV)
no longer will their faces grow pale.(BW)
23 When they see among them their children,(BX)
the work of my hands,(BY)
they will keep my name holy;(BZ)
they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One(CA) of Jacob,
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24 Those who are wayward(CB) in spirit will gain understanding;(CC)
those who complain will accept instruction.”(CD)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.
- Isaiah 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules
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