Isaiah 29 (NET)

Isaiah 29:1¹Ariel is as good as dead — Ariel, the town David besieged! Keep observing your annual rituals; celebrate your festivals on schedule.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:2²I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth before me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:3³I will lay siege to you on all sides; I will besiege you with troops; I will raise siege works against you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:4⁴You will fall; while lying on the ground you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:5⁵But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:6⁶Judgment will come from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, accompanied by thunder, earthquake, and a loud noise, by a strong gale, a windstorm, and a consuming flame of fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:7⁷It will be like a dream, a night vision. There will be a horde from all the nations that fight against Ariel, those who attack her and her stronghold and besiege her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:8⁸It will be like a hungry man dreaming that he is eating, only to awaken and find that his stomach is empty. It will be like a thirsty man dreaming that he is drinking, only to awaken and find that he is still weak and his thirst unquenched. So it will be for the horde from all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:9⁹You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:10¹⁰For the Lord has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes (you prophets), and covered your heads (you seers).Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:11¹¹To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say, “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t, because it is sealed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:12¹²Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:13¹³The Lord says, “These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:14¹⁴Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people— an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:15¹⁵Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast, “Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:16¹⁶Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:17¹⁷In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:18¹⁸At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:19¹⁹The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:20²⁰For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:21²¹those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:22²²So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, has said to the family of Jacob: “Jacob will no longer be ashamed; their faces will no longer show their embarrassment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:23²³For when they see their children, whom I will produce among them, they will honor my name. They will honor the Holy One of Jacob; they will respect the God of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Isaiah 29:24²⁴Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions