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MT LXX read Ariel, Ariel; i.e. a nickname assigned by the prophet for Jerusalem">a</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">the city where David encamped!</p> <p class="poetry2">Year after year,</p> <p class="poetry2">let your festivals run their cycle.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then I’ll besiege Aruel,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read Ariel, Ariel; i.e. an allusion to Jerusalem">b</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and there will be sorrow and mourning;</p> <p class="poetry2">she will become to me like an altar fireplace.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:2 Lit. an Ariel; i.e. perhaps a pun on the name Aruel">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then I’ll encamp against you like David,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:3 So 4QIsak MTmss LXX; 1QIsaa MT read you on all sides">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and I’ll lay siege to you with towers,</p> <p class="poetry2">raise siege works against you,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and you will be brought down.</p> <p class="poetry2">You will speak from the ground,</p> <p class="poetry2">and your speech will mumble from the dust.</p> <p class="poetry2">Your voice will come ghostlike from the ground,</p> <p class="poetry2">and your speech will whisper from the dust.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“But the hordes of your enemies<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads foreigners; LXX reads the ungodly">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">will become like fine dust,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the hordes of tyrants like flying chaff.</p> <p class="poetry2">Then suddenly, in an instant,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>you will be visited by the LORD of the Heavenly Armies—</p> <p class="poetry2">with thunder, an earthquake, and great noise,</p> <p class="poetry2">with a windstorm, a tempest,</p> <p class="poetry2">and flames from a devouring fire.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Aruel,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read Ariel, Ariel; i.e. an allusion to Jerusalem">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">all that attack her and her fortification<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:7 So 1QIsaa; MT reads her mountain stronghold; LXX reads Jerusalem">g</a></span> and besiege her,</p> <p class="poetry2">will become like a dream, with its visions in the night—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>as when a hungry man dreams—</p> <p class="poetry2">he eats, but wakes up still hungry;</p> <p class="poetry2">or when a thirsty man dreams—</p> <p class="poetry2">he drinks, but wakes up faint,</p> <p class="poetry2">with his thirst unquenched.</p> <p class="poetry2">So will it be with the hordes of all the nations</p> <p class="poetry2">that fight against Mount Zion.</p> <p class="heading">Blind to God’s Words</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Act stupid!</p> <p class="poetry2">Be astonished!</p> <p class="poetry2">Act blind,</p> <p class="poetry2">and be blind!</p> <p class="poetry2">Be drunk,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads They have become drunk">h</a></span> but not from<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks from">i</a></span> wine;</p> <p class="poetry2">stagger around,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads They stagger around">j</a></span> but not from strong drink.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the LORD has poured out upon you</p> <p class="poetry2">a spirit of deep sleep—</p> <p class="poetry2">he has closed your eyes, you prophets,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">he has covered your heads, you seers!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“And this entire vision has become for you like the words of a sealed book. When people give it to someone who can read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ he answers,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he will answer ">k</a></span> ‘I cannot, because it is sealed.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Or when they give the book<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:12 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the book will be given">l</a></span> to someone who cannot read, and say, ‘Read this, please,’ he answers,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:12 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read he will answer">m</a></span> ‘I don’t know how to read.’”</p> <p class="heading">A Rebuke of Hypocritical Worship</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the Lord said:</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“Because these people draw near with their mouths</p> <p class="poetry2">and honor me with their lips,</p> <p class="poetry2">but their hearts are far from me,</p> <p class="poetry2">worship of me<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Their worship of me">n</a></span> has become</p> <p class="poetry2">merely like<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack like">o</a></span> rules taught by human beings.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, watch out!</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“As for me,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks as for me">p</a></span> I will once again</p> <p class="poetry2">do amazing things with this people,</p> <p class="poetry2">wonder upon wonder.</p> <p class="poetry2">The wisdom of their wise men will perish,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the insights<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:14 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read insight">q</a></span> of their discerning men will stay hidden.”</p> <p class="heading">A Rebuke to the Deceptive</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“How terrible it will be for you who go to great depths</p> <p class="poetry2">to hide your plans from the LORD,</p> <p class="poetry2">you whose deeds have been<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:15 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read deeds are (or will be)">r</a></span> done<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:15 DSS MT lack done">s</a></span> in the dark,</p> <p class="poetry2">and who say, ‘Who can see us?</p> <p class="poetry2">Who has recognized<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:15 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read recognizes">t</a></span> us?’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He has turned the tables on you<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:16 So 1QIsaa; MT reads You turn things upside down!">u</a></span> —</p> <p class="poetry2">as if the potter were thought to be like heat.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:16 i.e. the fire in a kiln; so 1QIsaa; MT LXX read clay">v</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Can what is made say of the one who made it,</p> <p class="poetry2">‘He did not make me?’</p> <p class="poetry2">Or can what is formed say of the ones<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:16 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read one">w</a></span> who formed it,</p> <p class="poetry2">‘He has no skill?’</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“In a very little while,</p> <p class="poetry2">will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:17 Lit. into Carmel ">x</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and the garden of fruit<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:17 Lit. and Carmel ">y</a></span> seem like a forest?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>On that day the deaf will hear</p> <p class="poetry2">the words of a scroll,</p> <p class="poetry2">and out of gloom and darkness</p> <p class="poetry2">the eyes of the blind will see.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The humble will again experience joy in the LORD,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the poorest people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the ruthless will vanish,</p> <p class="poetry2">and mockers will disappear,</p> <p class="poetry2">and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>those who make a person appear to be the offender in a lawsuit,</p> <p class="poetry2">who set a trap for someone</p> <p class="poetry2">who is making his defense in court,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:21 Lit. in the gate">z</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and push aside the innocent</p> <p class="poetry2">with specious arguments.</p> <p class="reg margintop marginbot"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Therefore, this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob:</p> <p class="poetry2">‘No longer will Jacob be ashamed;</p> <p class="poetry2">no longer will his face grow pale.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For when he sees in his midst his children,</p> <p class="poetry2">the work of my hands,</p> <p class="poetry2">they will keep my name holy;</p> <p class="poetry2">they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob</p> <p class="poetry2">and stand in awe of the God of Israel.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Moreover, those who go astray in spirit will gain<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="29:24 Lit. discover">aa</a></span> understanding,</p> <p class="poetry2">and those who complain will accept instruction.’”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 29:1 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>Ariel, Ariel</i>; i.e. a nickname assigned by the prophet for Jerusalem<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 29:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>Ariel, Ariel</i>; i.e. an allusion to Jerusalem<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 29:2 Lit. <i>an Ariel</i>; i.e. perhaps a pun on the name <i>Aruel</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 29:3 So 4QIsak MTmss LXX; 1QIsaa MT read <i>you on all sides</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 29:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>foreigners</i>; LXX reads <i>the ungodly</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 29:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>Ariel, Ariel</i>; i.e. an allusion to Jerusalem<br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 29:7 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>her mountain stronghold</i>; LXX reads <i>Jerusalem</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 29:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>They have become drunk</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 29:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks <i>from</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 29:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>They stagger around</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 29:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXXread <i>he will answer</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 29:12 So 1QIsaa; MT LXXread <i>the book will be given</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 29:12 So 1QIsaa; MT LXXread <i>he will answer</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 29:13 So 1QIsaa; MTreads <i>Their worship of me</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 29:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack <i>like</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 29:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks <i>as for me</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 29:14 So 1QIsaa; MT LXXread <i>insight</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 29:15 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>deeds are </i>(or<i> will be</i>)<br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 29:15 DSS MT lack <i>done</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 29:15 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>recognizes</i><br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 29:16 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>You turn things upside down!</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 29:16 i.e. the fire in a kiln; so 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>clay</i><br /><span class="fnb">w</span> 29:16 So 1QIsaa; 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