Isaiah 29

1Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;Cross-references: 2Sam 5:9 · Isa 1:11 · Isa 22:12 · Isa 31:9 · Isa 66:3 · Jer 7:21 · +7 more

2then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.Cross-references: Isa 3:26 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 10:32 · Isa 17:14 · Isa 24:1 · +12 more

3I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:17 · 2Ki 19:32 · 2Ki 24:11 · 2Ki 25:1 · Ezek 21:22 · Matt 22:7 · +1 more

4You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.Cross-references: Ps 44:25 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 3:8 · Isa 8:19 · Isa 51:23 · Lam 1:9

5But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.Cross-references: Job 21:18 · Ps 1:4 · Ps 35:5 · Ps 46:5 · Ps 76:5 · Isa 10:16 · +7 more

6She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:10 · 1Sam 12:17 · 2Sam 22:14 · Isa 5:26 · Isa 28:2 · Isa 30:30 · +7 more

7The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.Cross-references: Job 20:8 · Ps 73:20 · Isa 17:14 · Isa 37:36 · Isa 41:11 · Jer 25:31 · +8 more

8It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:21 · Ps 73:20 · Isa 10:7 · Isa 44:12

9Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.Cross-references: Isa 1:2 · Isa 19:14 · Isa 22:12 · Isa 28:7 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 33:13 · +13 more

10For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.Cross-references: 1Sam 9:9 · 1Sam 26:12 · Ps 69:23 · Isa 3:2 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 29:14 · +11 more

11All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”Cross-references: Isa 8:16 · Dan 12:4 · Dan 12:9 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 16:17 · +2 more

12and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”Cross-references: Isa 28:12 · Isa 29:18 · Jer 5:4 · Hos 4:6 · John 7:15

13The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;Cross-references: 2Chr 29:1 · Ps 17:1 · Prov 30:6 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 48:1 · Isa 58:2 · +9 more

14therefore, 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 will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”Cross-references: Job 5:13 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 19:3 · Isa 19:11 · Isa 28:21 · Isa 29:9 · +12 more

15Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”Cross-references: Job 22:13 · Job 24:13 · Job 34:22 · Ps 10:11 · Ps 59:7 · Ps 64:5 · +19 more

16You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?Cross-references: Ps 94:8 · Isa 24:1 · Isa 45:9 · Isa 64:8 · Jer 18:1 · Acts 17:6 · +1 more

17Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?Cross-references: Ps 84:6 · Ps 107:33 · Ps 107:35 · Isa 5:6 · Isa 32:15 · Isa 35:1 · +18 more

18In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.Cross-references: Deut 29:4 · Ps 119:18 · Prov 20:12 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 29:24 · Isa 32:3 · +17 more

19The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: Ps 9:18 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 25:9 · Ps 37:11 · Ps 149:4 · Isa 11:4 · +25 more

20For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—Cross-references: Isa 13:3 · Isa 25:4 · Isa 28:14 · Isa 29:5 · Isa 49:25 · Isa 51:13 · +14 more

21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.Cross-references: Judg 12:6 · Prov 28:21 · Isa 32:7 · Jer 18:18 · Jer 20:7 · Jer 26:2 · +10 more

22Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.Cross-references: Gen 48:16 · Josh 24:2 · Neh 9:7 · Isa 41:8 · Isa 41:14 · Isa 44:21 · +22 more

23But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · Isa 5:16 · Isa 8:13 · Isa 19:25 · Isa 43:21 · Isa 45:11 · +8 more

24They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”Cross-references: Isa 28:7 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 30:21 · Isa 41:20 · Isa 60:16 · Zech 12:10 · +10 more