KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 29
Jehovah's heavy judgment upon Jerusalem. the futility of the nations. The senselessness, and deep hypocrisy of the Jews.
1Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David camped. Add year on year; let go around their feasts.
2And I will compress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and sorrow; and it shall be to Me as Ariel.
3And I will camp as a circle on you, and will lay siege work on you; and I will raise up ramparts on you.
4And you shall be humbled; you shall speak from the dust; and your speech shall be bowed down; and your voice shall be from the ground, like a medium; and your speech shall chirp out of the dust.
5And the host of ones estranged to you shall be as fine powder, and as chaff passing, the host of terrifying ones; and it will happen suddenly, instantly;
6you shall be visited from Jehovah of Hosts; with thunder and earthquake, and great noise, tempest and storm, and flame of devouring fire.
7And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, even all fighting her and compressing her and her stronghold, shall be like a dream of a night vision.
8It shall even be as when a hungry one dreams; and, behold, he is eating; but when he awakes, his soul is empty. Or it shall be as when a thirsty one dreams; and, behold, he is drinking, but when he awakes, he is faint, and his soul is longing. So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion.
9Wait and wonder! Blind yourselves, and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine! They stagger, but not with fermented liquor.
10For Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. The prophets and your heads, the seers, He has covered
11And the whole vision to you is like the words of a sealed book which they give to one knowing books, saying, Please read this. Then he says, I am not able, for it is sealed.
12And the book is given to one who does not know books, saying, Please read this. And he says, I do not know books.
13And the Lord says, Because this people draws near with its mouth, and they honor Me with its lips; but its heart is far from Me, and their fear of Me is taught the commandment by men;
14So, behold, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, the wonder, even a wonderful wonder. For the wisdom of his wise ones shall perish, and the wit of his witty ones shall be hidden.
15Woe to those who go to hide deeply their counsel from Jehovah! Yea, their works are in the dark; and they say, Who sees us? And, Who knows us?
16O your perversity! Shall the former be counted as the clay, that it shall say to its maker, He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say to the former, He does not understand?
17Is it not yet a little while, and Lebanon shall be turned back into a fruitful field; and the fruitful field shall be counted for the forest?
18And in that day deaf ones shall hear the words of a book; and the eyes of blind ones shall see out of their gloom and out of darkness.
19And the humble ones shall increase joy in Jehovah, and the poor of men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20For the terrifying one ceases; and the one scorning is ended; and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;
21those who make a man sin by a word, even they ensnare the reprover in the gate, and turn aside the righteous one by emptiness .
22Therefore Jehovah says to the house of Jacob, He who redeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not be ashamed now, nor shall his face become pale now.
23But when he sees his children in his midst, the work of My hands, they shall sanctify My name. They shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24Those led astray of spirit shall know discernment, and those who murmured shall learn instruction.
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