Isaiah 29:7-24 ▼

7 And it will come to pass like a dream and a vision of night, and the multitude of all the nations that go out against Ariel—even all those fighting against her and the siegeworks against her, and those pressing on her.

8 And it will be as when the hungry one dreams and behold, he is eating, and he awakens, and his soul is empty; or as when the thirsty one dreams and behold, he is drinking, and he awakens, and behold, he is faint and his soul is still running about. So will be the multitude of the all nations coming out against Mount Zion.

9 Pause and be astonished, blind yourselves and be blinded; be drunk, not from wine; stagger, not from strong drink!

10 For YHWH has poured out on you? a spirit of deep sleep, and He has closed your? eyes, O prophets, and He has covered your? heads, O seers.

11 And the vision of all has become to you? like the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to the one knowing a book, saying, “Read this now! “And he says, I am not able, for it is” sealed.

12 And the book is given to one who does not know a book, saying, “Read this now! And he says, “I do not know a book.”

13 And YHWH says, “Because that this people draws near with its mouth, and honors Me with its lips, and its heart has grown far away from Me, and their reverence toward Me is a commandment taught by men.

14 Therefore behold, I am adding to do a marvellous work with this people, and by a wonder making wonders, so will perish, the wisdom of its wise, and the understanding of its discerning will be hidden.

15 Wo to those going deep from YHWH to hide their counsel. And their works are in darkness, and they say, “Who sees us and who knows us?”

16 You? have turned things upside down! Shall the potter be considered like clay? Shall the thing made say of the one making it “He did not make me”? Or the thing formed say of the one forming it “He does not understand”?

17 Is it not yet very a little while that Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be considered a forest?

18 And in that day the deaf will hear the words of a book, and from the gloom and from the darkness, the eyes of the blind will see.

19 And the lowly will add joy in YHWH, and the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the ruthless one will cease, and the mocking one will disappear, and all those watching for iniquity will be cut down—

21 those making guilty a man by a word and laying a snare for the one arguing in the gate and stretching aside in confusion the just one.

22 Therefore thus says YHWH, who redeemed Abraham, to the house of Jacob, “Now no more will Jacob be ashamed, and now no more will his face grow pale.

23 For in his seeing his children, the work of My hands, in his midst, they will sanctify My name and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and the God of Israel they will fear.

24 And those having gone astray in spirit will know understanding, and those having grumbled, will learn instruction.”