Isaiah 29

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

[This is a message from Yahweh: ] Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where [King] David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.

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

But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, [and when that happens], people will weep and lament [very much]. Your city will become like [MET] an altar [to me] [where people are burned as sacrifices].

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

I will cause your enemies [to come to your city]; they will surround it by [building] towers and putting in place other things with which to attack 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

Then you will talk [as though you were] buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.

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

But, suddenly your enemies will be blown away like dust; their armies will disappear like [SIM] chaff that is blown away [by the wind]. [It will happen] very suddenly.

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

The Commander of the armies of angels will come [to help you] with thunder and an earthquake and a very loud noise, with a strong wind and a big storm and a fire that will burn up everything.

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

[Then] the armies of all the nations that will be attacking Jerusalem will quickly disappear like a dream in the night [DOU]. Those who will be attacking Jerusalem will suddenly vanish/disappear.

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

People who are asleep dream about eating food, [but] when they wake up, they are still hungry. People who are thirsty dream about drinking something, [but] when they wake up they are still thirsty. It will be like that when your enemies come to attack Zion Hill; [they will dream about conquering you, but when they wake up, ] [they will realize that they have not succeeded].

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

You [people of Jerusalem], be amazed and surprised [about this] [IRO]! Do not believe [what I have said] [SAR]! And continue to be blind [IRO] [about what Yahweh is doing]. You are stupid, but it is not because you have drunk a lot of wine. You stagger, but not from drinking alcoholic drinks.

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

Because Yahweh has prevented the prophets [DOU] from understanding [and telling you his messages], [it is as though] he has caused you to be fast/deeply asleep.

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

[Yahweh gave me] this vision; [but] for you, it is only words on a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to those who can read [and request that they read it], they will say, “We cannot read it because the scroll is 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

When you give it to [others] who cannot read, they will say, “[We cannot read it because] we 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

[So] the Lord says, “These people say that they belong to me. They honor me by what they say [MTY], but they do not think [IDM] about what I [desire]. When they worship me, all they do is recite rules that people have made and that they have memorized.

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

Therefore, again I will do something to amaze these people; I will perform many miracles. And [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are wise are not really wise, and [I will show that] the people [who tell others that they] are intelligent are not really intelligent.

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

Terrible things will happen to those who try to conceal from me, Yahweh, the [evil] things that they plan to do; they do those things in the darkness and they think, ‘Yahweh certainly cannot [RHQ] see us; he cannot [RHQ] know what we are doing!’

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

They are extremely foolish! [They act as though] they were the potters and I was the clay! Something that was created should certainly never [RHQ] say to the one who made it, ‘You did not make me!’ A jar should never say, ‘The potter who made me did not know what he was doing!’”

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

Soon [the forests in] Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.

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

At that time, deaf people will [be able to hear]; [they will be able to] hear when someone reads from a book; and blind people will [be able to see]; [they will be able to] see things when it is gloomy and [even] when it is dark.

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

Yahweh will enable humble people to be very joyful again. Poor people will rejoice about what the Holy One of Israel [has done].

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

There will be no more people who ridicule [others] and no more arrogant people. And those who plan to do evil things will be executed.

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

Those who testify falsely in order to persuade judges to punish innocent people will vanish/disappear. Similar things will happen to those who by lying in court [persuade judges to] make unjust decisions.

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

That is why Yahweh, who rescued Abraham, says about the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed; no longer will they show on their faces that they are ashamed.

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

When they see that I have blessed them by giving them many children and doing many other things for them, they will realize that I am the Holy One of Israel, and they will revere me, the God to whom they, the descendants of Jacob, belong.

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

When that happens, those who have not been able to think well will think clearly, and those who complain [about what I am doing] will accept what I am teaching them.”