Isaiah 29:1-16 - Woe To Jerusalem
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the city where David camped!
Continue year after year;
let the festivals recur.
and there will be mourning and crying,
and she will be to Me like an Ariel.
I will besiege you with earth ramps,
and I will set up my siege towers against you.
you will speak from the ground,
and your words will come from low in the dust.
Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;
your speech will whisper from the dust.
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and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,
with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise,
storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.
going out to battle against Ariel—
all the attackers, the siege works against her,
and those who oppress her—
will then be like a dream, a vision in the night.
then wakes and is still hungry;
and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,
then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.
So it will be for all the many nations
who go to battle against Mount Zion.
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blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunk,
they stagger,
an overwhelming urge to
He has shut your eyes—the prophets,
and covered your heads—the seers.
11 For you the entire vision will be like the words of a sealed document.
13 The Lord said:
to honor Me with lip-service
yet their hearts are far from Me,
and their worship consists of man-made rules
learned by rote—
with wonder after wonder.
The wisdom of their wise men will vanish,
and the understanding of the perceptive will be hidden.
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to hide their plans from the Lord.
They do their works in darkness,
and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
as if the potter were the same as the clay.
How can what is made say about its maker,
“He didn’t make me”?
How can what is formed
say about the one who formed it,
“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?