Isaiah 29 Proverbs of Solomon

13 Isaiah 29:1-12
¹Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David lived. Add year to year; let them keep festivals.
²Yet I will distress Ariel, and there will be heaviness and lamentations; and it will be to me as Ariel.
³And I will camp against you all around, and I will lay a siege against you with ramparts, and I will raise forts against you.
⁴And you will be brought down, and will speak from the land, and your words will be low out of the dust, and your voice will be heard from the ground like that of a diviner, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

⁵Moreover, the multitude of your oppressors will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones will be as the chaff that passes away; yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
⁶You will be visited by Yahvah of hosts with earthquakes, thunder, and great noise, with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire.
⁷And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Zion, even all the armies and multitudes that distress her, will be as a vision in the night.
⁸And it will be, even 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 will be the multitude of all the nations that fight against mount Zion.

⁹They are dumbfounded and amazed; they are troubled and stagger; they are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
¹⁰For Yahvah has poured out on 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.

¹¹And the vision of all is become to them as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned saying, Read this, and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:
¹²and the book is given to him who is not learned saying, Read this, and he says, I am not learned.

13 Isaiah 29:13-14
¹³Therefore Master said, Since this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their reverence toward me is taught by the precepts and doctrine of men;
¹⁴therefore look, I will proceed to set apart this people by a great wonder, and in a marvelous manner, and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be taken away.

13 Isaiah 29:15-24
¹⁵Woe to those who act perversely to hide their counsel from Yahvah; and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? And, Who knows what we do corruptly?
¹⁶Surely you are esteemed as the potter's clay; for will the work say of him who made it, He did not make me? Or will the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has not fashioned me wisely?

¹⁷Look, a little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be reared as a forest.
¹⁸And in that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of darkness and obscurity.
¹⁹The meek will also increase their joy in Yahvah, and the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
²⁰For the oppressor is brought to nothing, and the scorner is consumed, and all that incite to iniquity are cut off,
²¹those who cause men to sin by the word, and lay a snare for him who reprimands, and turn aside the righteous into darkness.

²²Therefore Yahvah who saved Abraham says concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob will not now be ashamed, nor will his face now grow pale.
²³But when his children see the work of my hands in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will glorify the God of Israel.
²⁴The foolish ones whose spirit also erred will come to understanding, and fools will learn to be obedient.