MLV(i)
1 Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year. Let the feasts come round.
2 Then I will distress Ariel and there will be mourning and lamentation and she will be to me as Ariel.
3 And I will encamp against you all around and will lay siege against you with posted troops. And I will raise siege works against you.
4 And you will be brought down and will speak out of the ground. And your speech will be low out of the dust and your voice will be as of he who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground. And your speech will whisper out of the dust. 5 But the multitude of your foes will be like small dust and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passes away. Yes, it will be in an instant suddenly
6 She will be visited by Jehovah of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold and that distress her, will be as a dream, a vision of the night.
8 And it will be as when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats. But he awakes and his soul is empty. Or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks. But he awakes, and behold, he is faint and his soul has appetite. So will the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
9 Abide and wonder, take your* pleasure and be blind. They are drunken, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah has poured out upon you* the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your* eyes. The prophets and your* heads, the seers, he has covered.
11 And all vision has become to you* as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to a man who is learned, saying, Read this, I beseech you. And he says, I cannot, for it is sealed. 12 And the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I beseech you. And he says, I am not learned.
13 And the Lord said, Inasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, but in vain they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder. I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.
15 Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Jehovah and whose works are in the dark and who say, Who sees us? and, Who knows us?
16 You* turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay, that the thing made should say of him who made it, He did not make me, or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field will be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day the deaf will hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. 19 The meek also will increase their joy in Jehovah and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing and the scoffer ceases. And all those who watch for wickedness are cut off, 21 who make a man an offender in his cause and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing. 22 Therefore Jehovah says thus, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob will not now be ashamed, nor will his face now grow pale. 23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. 24 They who also go-astray in spirit will come to understanding and those who murmur will receive instruction.
4 And you will be brought down and will speak out of the ground. And your speech will be low out of the dust and your voice will be as of he who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground. And your speech will whisper out of the dust. 5 But the multitude of your foes will be like small dust and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passes away. Yes, it will be in an instant suddenly
6 She will be visited by Jehovah of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold and that distress her, will be as a dream, a vision of the night.
8 And it will be as when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats. But he awakes and his soul is empty. Or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks. But he awakes, and behold, he is faint and his soul has appetite. So will the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
9 Abide and wonder, take your* pleasure and be blind. They are drunken, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah has poured out upon you* the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your* eyes. The prophets and your* heads, the seers, he has covered.
11 And all vision has become to you* as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to a man who is learned, saying, Read this, I beseech you. And he says, I cannot, for it is sealed. 12 And the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I beseech you. And he says, I am not learned.
13 And the Lord said, Inasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, but in vain they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder. I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.
15 Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Jehovah and whose works are in the dark and who say, Who sees us? and, Who knows us?
16 You* turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay, that the thing made should say of him who made it, He did not make me, or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field will be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day the deaf will hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. 19 The meek also will increase their joy in Jehovah and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing and the scoffer ceases. And all those who watch for wickedness are cut off, 21 who make a man an offender in his cause and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing. 22 Therefore Jehovah says thus, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob will not now be ashamed, nor will his face now grow pale. 23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. 24 They who also go-astray in spirit will come to understanding and those who murmur will receive instruction.