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Year after year you celebrate your feasts.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Yet I will bring disaster upon you, and there will be much weeping and sorrow. For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means— an altar covered with blood.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I will be your enemy, surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls. I will build siege towers and destroy it.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then deep from the earth you will speak; from low in the dust your words will come. Your voice will whisper from the ground like a ghost conjured up from the grave.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“But suddenly, your ruthless enemies will be crushed like the finest of dust. Your many attackers will be driven away like chaff before the wind. Suddenly, in an instant,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will act for you with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and storm and consuming fire.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All the nations fighting against Jerusalem will vanish like a dream! Those who are attacking her walls will vanish like a vision in the night.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">A hungry person dreams of eating but wakes up still hungry. A thirsty person dreams of drinking but is still faint from thirst when morning comes. So it will be with your enemies, with those who attack Mount Zion.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating, and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, 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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Are you amazed and incredulous? Don’t you believe it? Then go ahead and be blind. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from liquor!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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).</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, “We can’t read it because it is sealed.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, “We don’t know how to read.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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 taught by men,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders. The wisdom of the wise will pass away, and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their evil deeds in the dark! “The LORD can’t see us,” they say. “He doesn’t know what’s going on!”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, “He didn’t make me”? Does a jar ever say, “The potter who made me is stupid”?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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”?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Soon—and it will not be very long— the forests of Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In that day the deaf will hear words read from a book, and the blind will see through the gloom and darkness.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The humble will be filled with fresh joy from the LORD. The poor will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The scoffer will be gone, the arrogant will disappear, and those who plot evil will be killed.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Those who convict the innocent by their false testimony will disappear. A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice and who tell lies to destroy the innocent.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">That is why the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed or turn pale with fear.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For when they see their many children and all the blessings I have given them, they will recognize the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob. They will stand in awe of the God of Israel.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the wayward will gain understanding, and complainers will accept instruction.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/29-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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