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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 29 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/isaiah/29.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/29.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Isaiah 29</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/28.htm" title="Isaiah 28">◄</a> Isaiah 29 <a href="../isaiah/30.htm" title="Isaiah 30">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Ah, <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped!</div><div class="po2">Add ye year to year,</div><div class="po2">Let the feasts come round!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then will I distress Ariel,</div><div class="po2">And there shall be mourning and moaning; and she shall be unto Me as a hearth of God.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I will encamp against thee round about,</div><div class="po2">And will lay siege against thee with a mound,</div><div class="po2">And I will raise siege works against thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And brought down thou shalt speak out of the ground,</div><div class="po2">And thy speech shall be low out of the dust;</div><div class="po2">And thy voice shall be as of a ghost out of the ground,</div><div class="po2">And thy speech shall chirp out of the dust.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust,</div><div class="po2">And the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; Yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>There shall be a visitation from the LORD of hosts</div><div class="po2">With thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise,</div><div class="po2">With whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the multitude of all the nations that war against Ariel,</div><div class="po2">Even all that war against her, and the bulwarks about her, and they that distress her,</div><div class="po2">Shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth,</div><div class="po2">But he awaketh, and his soul is empty;</div><div class="po2">Or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh,</div><div class="po2">But he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite—</div><div class="po2">So shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Stupefy yourselves, and be stupid!</div><div class="po2">Blind yourselves, and be blind!</div><div class="po2">Ye that are drunken, but not with wine,</div><div class="po2">That stagger, but not with strong drink.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep,</div><div class="po2">And hath closed your eyes;</div><div class="po2">The prophets, and your heads, the seers, hath He covered.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the vision of all this is become unto you as the words of a writing that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying: ‘Read this, I pray thee’; and he saith: ‘I cannot, for it is sealed’; <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: ‘Read this, I pray thee’; and he saith: ‘I am not learned.’ <p class="section"></p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the Lord said:<br></div><div class="po2">Forasmuch as this people draw near,</div><div class="po2">And with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me,</div><div class="po2">But have removed their heart far from Me,</div><div class="po2">And their fear of Me is a command-ment of men learned by rote;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous work among this people,</div><div class="po2">Even a marvellous work and a wonder;</div><div class="po2">And the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,</div><div class="po2">And the prudence of their prudent men shall be hid.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And their works are in the dark,</div><div class="po2">And they say: ‘Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>O your perversity! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay;</div><div class="po2">That the thing made should say of him that made it: ‘He made me not’;</div><div class="po2">Or the thing framed say of him that framed it: ‘He hath no understanding?’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Is it not yet a very little while,</div><div class="po2">And Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,</div><div class="po2">And the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of a book,</div><div class="po2">And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The humble also shall increase their joy in the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And the neediest among men shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the terrible one is brought to nought,</div><div class="po2">And the scorner ceaseth,</div><div class="po2">And all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>That make a man an offender by words,</div><div class="po2">And lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate,</div><div class="po2">And turn aside the just with a thing of nought.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:</div><div class="po2">Jacob shall not now be ashamed,</div><div class="po2">Neither shall his face now wax pale;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When he seeth his children, the work of My hands, in the midst of him,</div><div class="po2">That they sanctify My name;</div><div class="po2">Yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,</div><div class="po2">And shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding,</div><div class="po2">And they that murmur shall learn instruction.</div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} That is, The hearth of God.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/28.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 28"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 28" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/30.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 30"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 30" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/isaiah/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>