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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"How terrible it will be for you, Aruel, Aruel, the city where David encamped! Year after year, let your festivals run their cycle. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Then I'll besiege Aruel, and there will be sorrow and mourning; she will become to me like an altar fireplace. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Then I'll encamp against you like David, and I'll lay siege to you with towers, raise siege works against you, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4and you will be brought down. You will speak from the ground, and your speech will mumble from the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the ground, and your speech will whisper from the dust. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"But the hordes of your enemies will become like fine dust, and the hordes of tyrants like flying chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6you will be visited by the LORD of the Heavenly Armies— with thunder, an earthquake, and great noise, with a windstorm, a tempest, and flames from a devouring fire. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Aruel, all that attack her and her fortification and besiege her, will become like a dream, with its visions in the night— |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8as when a hungry man dreams— he eats, but wakes up still hungry; or when a thirsty man dreams— he drinks, but wakes up faint, with his thirst unquenched. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Act stupid! Be astonished! Act blind, and be blind! Be drunk, but not from wine; stagger around, but not from strong drink. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep— he has closed your eyes, you prophets, he has covered your heads, you seers!" |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"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, 'I cannot, because it is sealed.' |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Or when they give the book to someone who cannot read, and say, 'Read this, please,' he answers, 'I don't know how to read.'" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then the Lord said: "Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, worship of me has become merely like rules taught by human beings. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Therefore, watch out! "As for me, I will once again do amazing things with this people, wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the insights of their discerning men will stay hidden." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"How terrible it will be for you who go to great depths to hide your plans from the LORD, you whose deeds have been done in the dark, and who say, 'Who can see us? Who has recognized us?' |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He has turned the tables on you — as if the potter were thought to be like heat. Can what is made say of the one who made it, 'He did not make me?' Or can what is formed say of the ones who formed it, 'He has no skill?' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"In a very little while, will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit, and the garden of fruit seem like a forest? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18On that day the deaf will hear the words of a scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The humble will again experience joy in the LORD, and the poorest people will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For the ruthless will vanish, and mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down— |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21those who make a person appear to be the offender in a lawsuit, who set a trap for someone who is making his defense in court, and push aside the innocent with specious arguments. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Therefore, this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: 'No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will his face grow pale. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For when he sees in his midst his children, the work of my hands, they will keep my name holy; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and stand in awe of the God of Israel. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Moreover, those who go astray in spirit will gain understanding, and those who complain will accept instruction.'" |
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