Book of Isaiah, Chapter 29
Chapter 29 of Isaiah
the city where David encamped!
Add year to year;
let the feasts run their round.
and there shall be moaning and lamentation,
and she shall be to me like an Ariel.
and will besiege you with towers
and I will raise siegeworks against you.
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.
and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff.
And in an instant, suddenly,
with thunder and with earthquake and great noise,
with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her,
shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
and awakes with his hunger not satisfied,
or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking
and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched,
so shall the multitude of all the nations be
that fight against Mount Zion.
blind yourselves and be blind!
Be drunk, but not with wine;
stagger, but not with strong drink!
a spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes, the prophets,
and covered your heads, the seers.
“Because this people draw near with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;
do marvelous things with this people,
wonderful and marvelous;
and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid.”
whose deeds are in the dark,
and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay;
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
the words of a book,
and out of their gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind shall see.
and the poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.
¶ “Jacob shall no more be ashamed,
no more shall his face grow pale.
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.
and those who murmur will accept instruction.”FOOTNOTES
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