[1] Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add you year to year;
let the feasts come round: [2] then will I distress Ariel, and there shall
be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be to me as Ariel. [3] I will
encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with posted
troops, and I will raise siege works against you. [4] You shall be brought
down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out
of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one who has a familiar spirit,
out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust. [5] But
the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of
the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant
suddenly. [6] She shall be visited of Yahweh of Hosts with thunder, and
with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame
of a devouring fire. [7] The multitude of all the nations that fight
against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who
distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. [8] It shall be
as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his
soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but
he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall
the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion. [9]
Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. [10] For Yahweh has
poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the
prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered. [11] All vision is
become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to
one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can`t,
for it is sealed: [12] and the book is delivered to him who is not learned,
saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned. [13] The Lord
said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with
their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their
fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them]; [14]
therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people,
even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall
perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. [15] Woe
to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in
the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us? [16] You turn things
upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made
should say of him who made it, He didn`t make me; or the thing formed say
of him who formed it, He has 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] 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 humble also shall increase their
joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of
Israel. [20] For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer
ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off; [21] that make a
man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the
gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing. [22] Therefore thus
says Yahweh, 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 sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they
shall sanctify my name; yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and
shall stand in awe of the God of Israel. [24] They also who err in spirit
shall come to understanding, and those who murmur shall receive
instruction.