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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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Fate of Jerusalem</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_29_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.1" class="v23_29_1">1</span>God's altar, Jerusalem itself, is doomed! The city where David camped is doomed! Let another year or two come and go, with its feasts and festivals, </span><span class="v23_29_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.2" class="v23_29_2">2</span>and then God will bring disaster on the city that is called “God's altar.” There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an altar covered with blood. </span><span class="v23_29_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.3" class="v23_29_3">3</span>God will attack the city, surround it, and besiege it. </span><span class="v23_29_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.4" class="v23_29_4">4</span>Jerusalem will be like a ghost struggling to speak from under the ground, a muffled voice coming from the dust.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_29_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.5" class="v23_29_5">5</span>Jerusalem, all the foreigners who attack you will be blown away like dust, and their terrifying armies will fly away like straw. Suddenly and unexpectedly </span><span class="v23_29_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.6" class="v23_29_6">6</span>the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty will rescue you with violent thunderstorms and earthquakes. He will send windstorms and raging fire; </span><span class="v23_29_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.7" class="v23_29_7">7</span>then all the armies of the nations attacking the city of God's altar, all their weapons and equipment—everything—will vanish like a dream, like something imagined in the night. </span><span class="v23_29_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.8" class="v23_29_8">8</span>All the nations that assemble to attack Jerusalem will be like a starving person who dreams he is eating and wakes up hungry, or like someone dying of thirst who dreams he is drinking and wakes with a dry throat.</span></p><h3 class="s">Disregarded Warnings</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_29_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.9" class="v23_29_9">9</span>Go ahead and be stupid! Go ahead and be blind! Get drunk without any wine! Stagger without drinking a drop! </span><span class="v23_29_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.10" class="v23_29_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.29.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blindfolded them. </span><span class="v23_29_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.11" class="v23_29_11">11</span>The meaning of every prophetic vision will be hidden from you; it will be like a sealed scroll. If you take it to someone who knows how to read and ask him to read it to you, he will say he can't because it is sealed. </span><span class="v23_29_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.12" class="v23_29_12">12</span>If you give it to someone who can't read and ask him to read it to you, he will answer that he doesn't know how.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_29_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.13" class="v23_29_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.29.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Lord said, “These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized. </span><span class="v23_29_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.14" class="v23_29_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.29.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Hope for the Future</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_29_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.15" class="v23_29_15">15</span>Those who try to hide their plans from the <span class="nd">Lord</span> are doomed! They carry out their schemes in secret and think no one will see them or know what they are doing. </span><span class="v23_29_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.16" class="v23_29_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.29.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, “You didn't make me”? Or can it say, “You don't know what you are doing”?</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_29_17"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.17" class="v23_29_17">17</span>As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_29_18"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.18" class="v23_29_18">18</span>When that day comes, the deaf will be able to hear a book being read aloud, and the blind, who have been living in darkness, will open their eyes and see. </span><span class="v23_29_19"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.19" class="v23_29_19">19</span>Poor and humble people will once again find the happiness which the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the holy God of Israel, gives. </span><span class="v23_29_20"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.20" class="v23_29_20">20</span>It will be the end of those who oppress others and show contempt for God. Every sinner will be destroyed. </span><span class="v23_29_21"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.21" class="v23_29_21">21</span>God will destroy those who slander others, those who prevent the punishment of criminals, and those who tell lies to keep honest people from getting justice.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_29_22"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.22" class="v23_29_22">22</span>So now the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who rescued Abraham from trouble, says, “My people, you will not be disgraced any longer, and your faces will no longer be pale with shame. </span><span class="v23_29_23"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.23" class="v23_29_23">23</span>When you see the children that I will give you, then you will acknowledge that I am the holy God of Israel. You will honor me and stand in awe of me. </span><span class="v23_29_24"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.29.24" class="v23_29_24">24</span>Foolish people will learn to understand, and those who are always grumbling will be glad to be taught.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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