Woe to Ariel, to
Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to
year; let them kill sacrifices.
02 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be
heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as
Ariel.
03 And I will camp against thee round about, and
will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I
will raise forts against thee.
04 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt
speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be
low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as
of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the
ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the
dust.
05 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall
be like small dust, and the multitude of the
terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth
away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
06 Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts
with thunder, and with earthquake, and great
noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of
devouring fire.
07 And the multitude of all the nations that
fight against Ariel, even all that fight against
her and her munition, and that distress her,
shall be as a dream of a night vision.
08 It shall even be as when an hungry man
dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh,
and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man
dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he
awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul
hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the
nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
09 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and
cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they
stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the
spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes:
the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he
covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as
the words of a book that is sealed, which men
deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it
is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not
learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he
saith, I am not learned.
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13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this
people draw near me with their mouth, and with
their lips do honour me, but have removed their
heart far from me, and their fear toward me is
taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvellous work among this people, even a
marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of
their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their
counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the
dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth
us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down
shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall
the work say of him that made it, He made me not?
or shall the thing framed say of him that framed
it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon
shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the
fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words
of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see
out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the
Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the
Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and
the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for
iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and
lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate,
and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
22 Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed
Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob
shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face
now wax pale.
23 But when he seeth his children, the work of
mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall
sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of
Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to
understanding, and they that murmured shall learn
doctrine.
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