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1 WOE to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add year to year; let them keep festivals. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and lamentations; and it shall be to me as Ariel. 3 And I will encamp against you round about, and I will lay a siege against you with ramparts, and I will raise forts against you. 4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak from the earth, and your words shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be heard from the ground like that of a diviner, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust. 5 Moreover the multitude of your oppressors shall be like fine dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as the chaff that passes away; yea, it shall be in an instant, suddenly. 6 You shall be visited by the LORD of hosts with earthquakes, thunder, and great noise, with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Zion, even all the armies and multitudes that distress her, shall be as a vision in the night. 8 And it shall even be as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, and when he awakes he is weary and famished; or as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but when he awakes, he is faint, with his thirst not quenched; so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount Zion. 9 They are dumbfounded and amazed; they are troubled and stagger; they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD has poured out upon them a spirit of deep sleep, and it has closed their eyes, and also the eyes of the prophets and rulers, and the seers, who see the hidden things. Isaiah 29:1-10, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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