Through My Bible Yr 01 – December 27

Isaiah 29:1 – 30:17

Through My Bible – December 27

Isaiah 29:1 – 30:17 (EHV)

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Woe to the City of David

Isaiah 29

¹Woe to Ariel! [1] Ariel, the city where David made his camp.

Add one year to another.
Let your cycle of festivals roll on.
²But then I will bring distress to Ariel,
and there will be mourning and lamentation.
Then she will become an altar hearth^[2] to me.
³I will encamp against you on all sides,
and I will lay siege against you with towers.^[3]
I will raise siege works against you.
⁴You will be brought so low
that you will speak from the ground.
You will murmur from the dust.
Your voice will be like a ghost from a pit in the ground,
and your speech will whisper from the dust.
⁵But your many foes will become like fine dust,
and the ruthless hordes like blowing chaff.
This will take place suddenly, in an instant.
⁶You will be visited by the Lord of Armies
with thunder, earthquake, and a loud noise,
with a strong wind and a storm,
and with the flames of a devouring fire.
⁷The hordes of nations that fight against Ariel,
all who fight against her and her stronghold,
all who besiege her—
all of them will be like a dream,
like a vision in the night.
⁸They will be like a hungry man who dreams and sees himself eating,
but then he wakes up, and his hunger is not satisfied.
They will be like a thirsty man who dreams and sees himself drinking,
but then he wakes up and, sure enough, he is weak with thirst.
That is how it will be with the hordes of nations
that fight against Mount Zion.
⁹Be stunned! Be amazed!
Blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunk, but not with wine.
They stagger, but not from beer.^[4]
¹⁰For the Lord has poured out a spirit of deep sleep over you.
He has closed your eyes—the prophets.
He has covered your heads—the seers.

¹¹For you this whole vision has become like the words of a sealed scroll. If you give it to someone who can read, and you say, “Read this, please,” he will say, “I can’t. It is sealed.” ¹²And if you give it to someone who cannot read, and you say, “Read this, please,” he will say, “I can’t read.”

¹³The Lord says:
These people approach me with their words,
and they honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me is nothing but commandments taught by men.^[5]
¹⁴So watch how I will continue to amaze these people
with amazing, extraordinary things.
The wisdom of the wise will perish,
and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.

Hope for the Future

¹⁵Woe to those who try to hide their plans from the Lord.
Their deeds are done in darkness,
and they think that no one sees them
or knows what they are doing.

¹⁶You turn things upside down!
Should the potter be treated like clay?
Should th...