Isaiah 29

1 woe! Ariel Ariel town to camp David to add year upon year feast to surround

Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city against which David fought: year has been added to year, the solemnities have unfolded.

2 and to press to/for Ariel and to be mourning and lamentation and to be to/for me like/as Ariel

And I will surround Ariel with siege works, and it will be in sorrow and mourning, and it will be like Ariel to me.

3 and to camp like/as circle upon you and to confine upon you entrenchment and to arise: raise upon you fortress

And I will surround you like a sphere all around you, and I will raise up a rampart against you, and I will set up fortifications to blockade you.

4 and to abase from land: country/planet to speak: speak and from dust to bow word your and to be like/as medium from land: soil voice your and from dust word your to whisper

You will be brought low. You will speak from the ground, and your eloquence will be heard from the dirt. And, from the ground, your voice will be like that of the python, and your eloquence will mumble from the dirt.

5 and to be like/as dust thin crowd be a stranger your and like/as chaff to pass crowd ruthless and to be to/for suddenness suddenly

And the multitude of those who fan you will be like fine dust. And the multitude of those who have prevailed against you will be like embers fading away.

6 from from with LORD Hosts to reckon: visit in/on/with thunder and in/on/with quaking and voice: sound great: large whirlwind and tempest and flame fire to eat

And this will happen suddenly and swiftly. It will be visited from the Lord of hosts with thunder and earthquakes, and with the great noise of a whirlwind and a storm, and with a flame of devouring fire.

7 and to be like/as dream vision night crowd all [the] nation [the] to serve upon Ariel and all to serve her and stronghold her and [the] to press to/for her

And the multitude of all the nations that have struggled against Ariel will be like the dream of a vision by night, along with all who have battled, and besieged, and prevailed against it.

8 and to be like/as as which to dream [the] hungry and behold to eat and to awake and worthless soul: appetite his and like/as as which to dream [the] thirsty and behold to drink and to awake and behold faint and soul: appetite his to rush so to be crowd all [the] nation [the] to serve upon mountain: mount Zion

And it will be like one who is hungry and dreams of eating, but, when he has been awakened, his soul is empty. And it will be like one who is thirsty and dreams of drinking, but, after he has been awakened, he still languishes in thirst, and his soul is empty. So shall the multitude of all the nations be, who have struggled against Mount Zion.

9 to delay and to astounded to smear and to smear be drunk and not wine to shake and not strong drink

Be stupefied and in wonder! Shake and quiver! Be inebriated, but not from wine! Stagger, but not from drunkenness!

10 for to pour upon you LORD spirit deep sleep and to shut eyes [obj] eye your [obj] [the] prophet and [obj] head your [the] seer to cover

For the Lord has mixed for you a spirit of deep sleep. He will close your eyes. He will cover your prophets and leaders, who see visions.

11 and to be to/for you vision [the] all like/as word [the] scroll: book [the] to seal which to give: give [obj] him to(wards) to know (scroll: book *Q(K)*) to/for to say to call: read out please this and to say not be able for to seal he/she/it

And the vision of all will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which, when they have given it to someone who knows how to read, they will say, “Read this,” but he will respond, “I cannot; for it has been sealed.”

12 and to give: give [the] scroll: book upon which not to know scroll: read to/for to say to call: read out please this and to say not to know scroll: read

But if the book is given to someone who does not know how to read, and it is said to him, “Read,” then he will respond, “I do not know how to read.”

13 and to say Lord because for to approach: approach [the] people [the] this in/on/with lip his and in/on/with lips his to honor: honour me and heart his to remove from me and to be fear their [obj] me commandment human to learn: teach

And the Lord said: Since this people have drawn near to me only with their mouth, and their lips glorify me while their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is based on the commandments and doctrines of men,

14 to/for so look! I to add: again to/for to wonder [obj] [the] people [the] this to wonder and wonder and to perish wisdom wise his and understanding to understand him to hide

for this reason, behold, I will proceed to accomplish a wonder for this people, a great and mystifying miracle. For wisdom will perish from their wise, and the understanding of their prudent will be concealed.

15 woe! [the] be deep from LORD to/for to hide counsel and to be in/on/with darkness deed their and to say who? to see: see us and who? to know us

Woe to you who use the depths of the heart, so that you may hide your intentions from the Lord. Their works are done in darkness, and so they say: “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

16 perversity your if: surely no like/as clay [the] to form: potter to devise: think for to say deed: work to/for to make him not to make me and intention to say to/for to form: formed him not to understand

This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: “You did not make me.” Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, “You do not understand.”

17 not still little little and to return: return Lebanon to/for plantation and [the] plantation to/for wood to devise: think

In not more than a little while and a brief time, Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and a fruitful field will be considered to be a forest.

18 and to hear: hear in/on/with day [the] he/she/it [the] deaf word scroll: book and from darkness and from darkness eye blind to see: see

And in that day, the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind will see.

19 and to add: again poor in/on/with LORD joy and needy man in/on/with holy Israel to rejoice

And the meek will increase their rejoicing in the Lord, and the poor among men will exult in the Holy One of Israel.

20 for to end ruthless and to end: finish to mock and to cut: eliminate all to watch evil: wickedness

For the one who was prevailing has failed, the one who was mocking has been consumed, and all those who were standing guard over iniquity have been cut down.

21 to sin man in/on/with word and to/for to rebuke in/on/with gate to lure [emph?] and to stretch in/on/with formlessness righteous

For they caused men to sin by a word, and they supplanted him who argued against them at the gates, and they turned away from justice in vain.

22 to/for so thus to say LORD to(wards) house: household Jacob which to ransom [obj] Abraham not now be ashamed Jacob and not now face his to pale

Because of this, thus says the Lord, he who has redeemed Abraham, to the house of Jacob: From now on, Jacob will not be confounded; from now on his countenance will not blush with shame.

23 for in/on/with to see: see he youth his deed: work hand my in/on/with entrails: among his to consecrate: consecate name my and to consecrate: consecate [obj] holy Jacob and [obj] God Israel to tremble

Instead, when he sees his children, they will be the work of my hands in his midst, sanctifying my name, and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will preach the God of Israel.

24 and to know to go astray spirit understanding and to grumble to learn: learn teaching

And those who had gone astray in spirit will know understanding, and those who had murmured will learn the law.