Isaiah 29 Woe! Ariel! Ariel! The town of the camp of David. Your progeny gather year after year. Celebrations are they compassing.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Woe! Ariel! Ariel! The town of the camp of David. Your progeny gather year after year. Celebrations are they compassing. ² Yet I constrain Ariel, and there comes complaint and complaining. And it comes to be to Me as a lion subjector, ³ and I camp as David against you, and I besiege you with siege works, and I raise against you towers, ⁴ and abased, from the earth are you speaking, and from the soil, prostrated is your saying, and your voice comes, as a medium, from the earth, and your saying is chirping from the soil." ⁵ And, as thin powder, comes the throng of your foes, and, as passing trash, the throng of the terrifiers. And it comes for an instant, ⁶ suddenly from Yahweh of hosts, you are visited with thunder, and with a quaking and a great sound, a sweeping whirlwind and tempest, and a blaze of fire devouring." ⁷ And it comes to be as a dream, a vision of the night, the throng of all the nations, the hosts against Ariel, and all her host and her constriction, and that which is constraining her." ⁸ And it comes to be as when one who is famishing is dreaming, and, behold! Eating is he! Yet he awakes and empty is his soul. And as when one who is thirsty is dreaming, and, behold! Drinking is he! And he awakes, and behold! Faint is he, and his soul is prowling. So is becoming the throng of all the nations, the hosts against mount Zion." ⁹ Dally and be amazed! Regale yourself and revel! Be drunk, yet not from wine! Sway, yet not from an intoxicant!" ¹⁰ For Yahweh has libated on you a spirit of stupor. And He is restraining your eyes, that is, the prophets, and your heads, the vision seers, He covers." ¹¹ And to you are all visions becoming as the words of a sealed scroll, which they are giving him acquainted with the scroll, saying, "Read this, pray.And he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed." ¹² And the scroll is given to one who is not acquainted with the scroll, saying, "Read this, pray.And he says, "I am not acquainted with a scroll." ¹³ And saying is Yahweh, "Forasmuch as close to Me is this people with their mouth, and with their lips they glorify Me, yet their heart is far from Me, and their fear of Me is becoming as the instruction of mortals' teaching." ¹⁴ Wherefore, behold Me! I will proceed to distribute this people, and I am distributing them. And perish shall the wisdom of their wise, and the understanding of their understanding ones shall conceal itself." ¹⁵ Woe to those digging deep, to conceal counsel from Yahweh, and it comes that their doings are in darkness. And saying are they, `Who sees us?' And `Who knows us?'" ¹⁶ O! Your waywardness! Should as clay, the Potter be accounted? For is what is made saying of its Maker, `He did not make me'? And does the formed say of its Former, `He does not understand'? ¹⁷ Is it only a little bit, and Lebanon turns back to crop land, and the crop land for wildwood will be accounted? ¹⁸ And the deaf will hear, in that day, the words of a scroll, and from gloom, and from darkness, blind eyes shall see, ¹⁹ and the humble will continue to rejoice in Yahweh, and the needy of humanity will exult in the Holy One of Israel." ²⁰ For the limit will be reached by the terrifier, and finished will be the mocker, and cut off will be all alert for lawlessness, ²¹ those who make a human a sinner by a word, and the corrector in the gateway do they trap, and will turn aside the righteous into a chaos." ²² Wherefore, thus says Yahweh to the house of Jacob, He Who distinguished Abraham:"Not now is Jacob ashamed, and not now is the face of Israel hot." ²³ For when they see their boys, the work of My hands, within them, they will hallow My name, and they will hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and by the Elohim of Israel shall they be terrified." ²⁴ And those straying in spirit shall know understanding, and the grumblers shall learn influence, and the deriders tongues shall learn to talk welfare."