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| 29:1 |
Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year;let the feasts run their round.
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| 29:2 |
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.
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| 29:3 |
And I will encamp against you round about, and will besiege you with towers and I will 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 the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
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| 29:6 |
you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with 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 distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
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| 29:8 |
As when a hungry man dreams he is eating 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.
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| 29:9 |
Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine;stagger, but not with strong drink!
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| 29:10 |
For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and covered your heads, the seers.
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| 29:11 |
And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, 'Read this,' he says, 'I cannot, for it is sealed.'
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| 29:12 |
And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, 'Read this,' he says, 'I cannot read.'
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| 29:13 |
And the Lord said: '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;
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| 29:14 |
therefore, behold, I will again 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.'
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| 29:15 |
Woe to those who hide deep from the LORD their counsel, 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;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'?
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| 29:17 |
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
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| 29:18 |
In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, 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 poor among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
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| 29:20 |
For the ruthless shall come to nought and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
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| 29:21 |
who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.
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| 29:22 |
Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: 'Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more 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 murmur will accept instruction.'
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