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| 29:1 |
Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals run their round.
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| 29:2 |
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and Jerusalem shall be to me like an Ariel.
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| 29:3 |
And like David I will encamp against you; I will besiege you with towers and raise siegeworks against you.
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| 29:4 |
Then deep from the earth you shall speak, from low in the dust your words shall come; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
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| 29:5 |
But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
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| 29:6 |
you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
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| 29:7 |
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
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| 29:8 |
Just as when a hungry person dreams of eating and wakes up still hungry, or a thirsty person dreams of drinking and wakes up faint, still thirsty, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
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| 29:9 |
Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not from wine; stagger, but not from strong drink!
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| 29:10 |
For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes, you prophets, and covered your heads, you seers.
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| 29:11 |
The vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to those who can read, with the command, "Read this," they say, "We cannot, for it is sealed."
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| 29:12 |
And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, "Read this," they say, "We cannot read."
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| 29:13 |
The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote;
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| 29:14 |
so I will again do amazing things with this people, shocking and amazing. The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.
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| 29:15 |
Ha! You who hide a plan too deep for the LORD, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"
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| 29:16 |
You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay? Shall the thing made say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of the one who formed it, "He has no understanding"?
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| 29:17 |
Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?
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| 29:18 |
On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.
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| 29:19 |
The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the neediest people shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
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| 29:20 |
For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall cease to be; all those alert to do evil shall be cut off--
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| 29:21 |
those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate, and without grounds deny justice to the one in the right.
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| 29:22 |
Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: No longer shall Jacob be ashamed, no longer shall his face grow pale.
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| 29:23 |
For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
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| 29:24 |
And those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.
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