Yeshayahu 29 ישעיהו כ״ט

Ho Ari᾽el, Ari᾽el, the city where David encamped! add year to year; let the feasts come round.

Yet I will distress Ari᾽el, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: yet it shall be to me as an Ari᾽el (altar hearth).

And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mound, and I will raise siege works against thee.

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 a medium, out of the ground, and thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.

Yet the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be like chaff that passes away: and it shall be in an instant suddenly.

Thou shalt be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ari᾽el, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

It shall even 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 longs for water: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Żiyyon.

Amaze yourselves and be amazed; blind yourselves and be blind; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink.

For the Lord has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and has covered your heads, the seers.

And the vision of all this is become to 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 says, I cannot; for it is sealed:

and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he says, I am not learned.

And the Lord said, Since this people draw near, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear towards me is as a commandment of men learned by rote;

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.

Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

O your perverseness! shall the potter be esteemed as the 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?

Is it not yet a very little while, and Levanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?

And on that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poorest among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.

For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

that make a man an offender for a word, and ensnare the mentor in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Avraham, concerning the house of Ya῾aqov, Ya῾aqov shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now grow pale;

when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, sanctifying my name; for they shall sanctify the Holy One of Ya῾aqov, and shall reverence the God of Yisra᾽el.

They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.