Isaiah 29

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1 Woe to Ariel, Ariel, to the city in which David lived! Attach year to year; Let the victims be slaughtered.
2 But I will trouble Ariel, and there will be weeping and mourning; And he will remain with me, like Ariel.
3 I will lie by the camp around you, and I will distress you with watchfulness, and I will build up fortifications against you.
4 And you will be humbled, you will speak from the ground, and your speech will be deaf from under the dust, and your voice will be like the voice of the ventriloquist, and from your ashes whisper your speech.
5 The multitude of your enemies will be like fine dust, and a horde of savage, like a flying plum; And this will happen suddenly, in an instant.
6th The Lord of hosts will visit you with thunder and an earthquake, and with a strong voice, a storm and a whirlwind, and the flame of a devouring fire.
7th And like a dream, like a night dream, there will be a multitude of all peoples fighting against Ariel, and all those who came up against him and his fortifications and who embarrassed him.
8 And how hungry he dreams, as if he is eating, but awakens, and his soul is thin; And as the thirsty dreams, as if he is drinking, but is awakened, and now he is languishing, and his soul is thirsty: the same will be the multitude of all the nations fighting against Mount Zion.

9 Be amazed and amazed: they blinded others, and blinded themselves; They are drunk, but not from wine; they stagger, but not from the sake of sake;
10 For the Lord hath put the spirit of sleep upon you, and closed your eyes, the prophets, and closed your heads, seers.
eleven And every prophecy for you is the same as the words in a sealed book, which is given to a book reader who knows how to read and say: 'read it'; And he answers: "I can not, because she is sealed."
12 And they pass the book to someone who does not know how to read, and they say: 'read it'; And he answers: "I can not read."
13 And the LORD said, "As this people draws near to me with their mouths, and honors Me with their tongue, their heart is far from Me, and their reverence for Me is the study of the commandments of men;
14 Then, behold, I will do extraordinarily with this people, marvelously and wonderfully, so that the wisdom of his wise men will perish, and the mind of its reasonable will not.
15 Woe to those who are thinking to hide in the depths, so that they can hide their plan from the Lord, who do their deeds in darkness and say: "Who will see us? And who knows us? '
16 What recklessness! Is it possible to count potter as clay? Will the article say of the one who made it: "He did not make me"? And whether the work of the artist will say: 'He does not understand'?

17th A little more, very little, and Lebanon will not turn into a garden, and will not the garden be revered as a forest?
18 And on that day the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of the darkness and darkness.
19 And the suffering will more and more rejoice over the Lord, and the poor will triumph over the Holy One of Israel,
20 Because there will be no more offender, and the hubbub will disappear, and all the champions of iniquity will be exterminated,
21 Which entangle man in words, and those who demand judgment at the gate place nets, and repel the right.
22 Therefore thus says the Lord about the house of Jacob, who redeemed Abraham: then Jacob will not be in shame, and his face will not turn pale any more.
23 For when he sees his children in his own hand, the work of my hands, they will holily honor my name and holyly honor the Holy One of Jacob, and reverence the God of Israel.
24 Then those who walk in the spirit will learn wisdom, and the disobedient will learn obedience.

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