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Chapter 29 |
| 1 | Woe to Ariel,
to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill
sacrifices. |
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| Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness
and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. |
| 3 | And I will
camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount,
and I will raise forts against thee. |
| 4 | And thou shalt be brought down,
and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust,
and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the
ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. |
| 5 | Moreover the
multitude of thy 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. |
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6 | Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with
thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the
flame of devouring fire. |
| 7 | And the multitude of all the nations that
fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that
distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. |
| 8 | It shall even
be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, 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. |
| 9 |
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not
with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. |
| 10 | For the LORD
hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes:
the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. |
| 11 | And the
vision of all is become unto 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 cannot; for it is sealed: |
| 12 | And the book is delivered to
him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not
learned. |
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| Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw
near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed
their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of
men: |
| 14 |
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work
among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their
wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be
hid. |
| 15 |
Woe unto them that 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? |
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16 | Surely your turning of things upside down shall be
esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He
made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no
understanding? |
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17 | Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon
shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed
as a forest? |
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18 | And in 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. |
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| The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and
the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. |
| 20 | For the
terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that
watch for iniquity are cut off: |
| 21 | That make a man an offender
for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside
the just for a thing of nought. |
| 22 | Therefore thus saith the
LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now
be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. |
| 23 | But when he
seeth his children, the work of mine 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. |
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| They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. |
