1408 - Isaiah 29 part 1

 Isaiah Chapter 29 part 1


“What sorrow awaits Ariel, the City of David.


Year after year you celebrate your feasts.


Yet, I will bring disaster upon you,

and there will be much weeping and sorrow.


For Jerusalem will become… what her name, Ariel, means—an altar covered with blood.


I will be your enemy, surrounding Jerusalem …and attacking its walls.


I will build siege towers and destroy the city.


Then, deep from the earth, you will speak; from low, in the dust, your words will come.


Your voice will whisper, from the ground, like a ghost …conjured up from the grave.


“But suddenly, your ruthless enemies will be crushed, like the finest of dust.


Your many attackers will be driven away, like chaff before the wind.


Suddenly, in an instant…

I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will act for you, with thunder, and earthquake, and great noise, ….with whirlwind, and storm, and consuming fire.


All the nations, who are fighting against Jerusalem,  will vanish like a dream!


Those, who are attacking her walls, will vanish, like a vision in the night.


A hungry person dreams of eating, but wakes up still hungry.


A thirsty person dreams of drinking, but is still faint from thirst, when morning comes.


So, it will be with your enemies,

with those who attack Mount Zion.”


Are you amazed and incredulous?


Do you not believe it?


Then go ahead and be blind.


You are stupid, but not from wine!


You stagger, but not from liquor!


The Lord has poured out, on you, a spirit of deep sleep.


He has closed the eyes of your prophets and your visionaries.


You are blind.


The Holy Bible 

New Living Translation 


Isaiah 29:1–10


Praise be to God!


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