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Isaiah 29
New International Version

### Woe to David’s City

29 Woe(A) to you, Ariel, Ariel,(B)
the city(C) where David settled!
Add year to year
and let your cycle of festivals(D) go on.
2 Yet I will besiege Ariel;(E)
she will mourn and lament,(F)
she will be to me like an altar hearth.[a](G)
3 I will encamp against you on all sides;
I will encircle(H) you with towers
and set up my siege works(I) against you.
4 Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
your speech will mumble(J) out of the dust.(K)
Your voice will come ghostlike(L) from the earth;
out of the dust your speech will whisper.(M)

5 But your many enemies will become like fine dust,(N)
the ruthless(O) hordes like blown chaff.(P)
Suddenly,(Q) in an instant,
6 the Lord Almighty will come(R)
with thunder(S) and earthquake(T) and great noise,
with windstorm and tempest(U) and flames of a devouring fire.(V)
7 Then the hordes of all the nations(W) that fight against Ariel,(X)
that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,
will be as it is with a dream,(Y)
with a vision in the night—
8 as when a hungry person dreams of eating,
but awakens(Z) hungry still;
as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,
but awakens faint and thirsty still.(AA)
So will it be with the hordes of all the nations
that fight against Mount Zion.(AB)

9 Be stunned and amazed,(AC)
blind yourselves and be sightless;(AD)
be drunk,(AE) but not from wine,(AF)
stagger,(AG) but not from beer.
10 The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:(AH)
He has sealed your eyes(AI) (the prophets);(AJ)
he has covered your heads (the seers).(AK)

11 For you this whole vision(AL) is nothing but words sealed(AM) in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

13 The Lord says:

“These people(AN) come near to me with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,(AO)
but their hearts are far from me.(AP)
Their worship of me
is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[b](AQ)
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people
with wonder upon wonder;(AR)
the wisdom of the wise(AS) will perish,
the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.(AT)”
15 Woe to those who go to great depths
to hide(AU) their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us?(AV) Who will know?”(AW)
16 You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!(AX)
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed(AY) it,
“You did not make me”?
Can the pot say to the potter,(AZ)
“You know nothing”?(BA)

17 In a very short time,(BB) will not Lebanon(BC) be turned into a fertile field(BD)
and the fertile field seem like a forest?(BE)
18 In that day(BF) the deaf(BG) will hear the words of the scroll,
and out of gloom and darkness(BH)
the eyes of the blind will see.(BI)
19 Once more the humble(BJ) will rejoice in the Lord;
the needy(BK) will rejoice in the Holy One(BL) of Israel.
20 The ruthless(BM) will vanish,(BN)
the mockers(BO) will disappear,
and all who have an eye for evil(BP) will be cut down—
21 those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,
who ensnare the defender in court(BQ)
and with false testimony(BR) deprive the innocent of justice.(BS)

22 Therefore this is what the Lord, who redeemed(BT) Abraham,(BU) says to the descendants of Jacob:

“No longer will Jacob be ashamed;(BV)
no longer will their faces grow pale.(BW)
23 When they see among them their children,(BX)
the work of my hands,(BY)
they will keep my name holy;(BZ)
they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One(CA) of Jacob,
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24 Those who are wayward(CB) in spirit will gain understanding;(CC)
those who complain will accept instruction.”(CD)

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.
2. Isaiah 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 29:1 : Isa 22:12-13; S 28:1
2. Isaiah 29:1 : ver 2, 7
3. Isaiah 29:1 : S 2Sa 5:7
4. Isaiah 29:1 : S Isa 1:14
5. Isaiah 29:2 : S ver 1
6. Isaiah 29:2 : S Isa 3:26; La 2:5
7. Isaiah 29:2 : Eze 43:15
8. Isaiah 29:3 : Lk 19:43-44
9. Isaiah 29:3 : S 2Ki 25:1
10. Isaiah 29:4 : Isa 8:19
11. Isaiah 29:4 : Isa 47:1; 52:2
12. Isaiah 29:4 : S Lev 19:31
13. Isaiah 29:4 : Isa 26:16
14. Isaiah 29:5 : S Dt 9:21; Ps 78:39; 103:15; S Isa 2:22; 37:27; 40:6; 51:12
15. Isaiah 29:5 : S Isa 13:11
16. Isaiah 29:5 : S Isa 17:13
17. Isaiah 29:5 : S Ps 55:15; S Isa 17:14; 1Th 5:3
18. Isaiah 29:6 : S Isa 26:21; Zec 14:1-5
19. Isaiah 29:6 : S Ex 19:16
20. Isaiah 29:6 : Mt 24:7; Mk 13:8; Lk 21:11; S Rev 6:12; 11:19
21. Isaiah 29:6 : S Ps 50:3; S 55:8; S Isa 28:15
22. Isaiah 29:6 : S Lev 10:2; Ps 83:13-15
23. Isaiah 29:7 : Mic 4:11-12; Zec 12:9
24. Isaiah 29:7 : S ver 1
25. Isaiah 29:7 : S Job 20:8
26. Isaiah 29:8 : S Ps 73:20
27. Isaiah 29:8 : ver 5, 7; Isa 41:11, 15; Jer 30:16; Zec 12:3
28. Isaiah 29:8 : Isa 17:12-14; 54:17
29. Isaiah 29:9 : ver 14; Jer 4:9; Hab 1:5
30. Isaiah 29:9 : S Isa 6:10
31. Isaiah 29:9 : Isa 51:17; 63:6; Jer 13:13; 25:27
32. Isaiah 29:9 : S Lev 10:9; Isa 28:1; 51:21-22
33. Isaiah 29:9 : S Ps 60:3; S Isa 3:12
34. Isaiah 29:10 : S Jdg 4:21; Jnh 1:5
35. Isaiah 29:10 : Ps 69:23; S Isa 6:9-10; 44:18; Ro 11:8*; 2Th 2:9-11
36. Isaiah 29:10 : Mic 3:6
37. Isaiah 29:10 : S 1Sa 9:9
38. Isaiah 29:11 : S Isa 28:7
39. Isaiah 29:11 : S Isa 8:16; Da 8:26; 12:9; Mt 13:11; Rev 5:1-2
40. Isaiah 29:13 : Jer 14:11; Hag 1:2; 2:14
41. Isaiah 29:13 : S Ps 50:16
42. Isaiah 29:13 : S Ps 119:70; Isa 58:2; Jer 12:2; Eze 33:31
43. Isaiah 29:13 : Mt 15:8-9*; Mk 7:6-7*; Col 2:22
44. Isaiah 29:14 : S Job 10:16
45. Isaiah 29:14 : S Job 5:13; Jer 8:9; 49:7
46. Isaiah 29:14 : Isa 6:9-10; 1Co 1:19*
47. Isaiah 29:15 : S Ge 3:8; S Isa 28:15
48. Isaiah 29:15 : S Job 8:3; Ps 10:11-13; 94:7; Isa 47:10; 57:12; Eze 8:12; 9:9
49. Isaiah 29:15 : S 2Ki 21:16; S Job 22:13
50. Isaiah 29:16 : S Job 10:9; S Isa 10:15
51. Isaiah 29:16 : S Ge 2:7
52. Isaiah 29:16 : Isa 45:9; 64:8; Jer 18:6; Ro 9:20-21*
53. Isaiah 29:16 : S Job 9:12
54. Isaiah 29:17 : S Isa 10:25
55. Isaiah 29:17 : S Isa 2:13
56. Isaiah 29:17 : Ps 84:6; 107:33
57. Isaiah 29:17 : Isa 32:15
58. Isaiah 29:18 : S Isa 28:5
59. Isaiah 29:18 : Mk 7:37
60. Isaiah 29:18 : S Ps 107:14
61. Isaiah 29:18 : S Ps 146:8; S Isa 32:3; Mt 11:5; Lk 7:22
62. Isaiah 29:19 : Ps 25:9; 37:11; Isa 61:1; Mt 5:5; 11:29
63. Isaiah 29:19 : S Ps 72:4; S Isa 3:15; S 14:30; Mt 11:5; Lk 7:22; Jas 1:9; 2:5
64. Isaiah 29:19 : ver 23; Isa 1:4; S 5:19; S 12:6; 30:11
65. Isaiah 29:20 : S Isa 9:4; S 13:11
66. Isaiah 29:20 : Isa 34:12
67. Isaiah 29:20 : S 2Ch 36:16; Isa 28:22
68. Isaiah 29:20 : S Job 15:35; Ps 7:14; Isa 32:7; 33:11; 59:4; Eze 11:2; Mic 2:1; Na 1:11
69. Isaiah 29:21 : Am 5:10, 15
70. Isaiah 29:21 : Pr 21:28
71. Isaiah 29:21 : S Isa 5:23; 32:7; Hab 1:4
72. Isaiah 29:22 : S Ex 6:6
73. Isaiah 29:22 : Ge 17:16; Isa 41:8; 51:2; 63:16
74. Isaiah 29:22 : Ps 22:5; 25:3; S Isa 28:16; 49:23; 61:7; Joel 2:26; Zep 3:11
75. Isaiah 29:22 : Jer 30:6, 10; Joel 2:6, 21; Na 2:10
76. Isaiah 29:23 : Isa 49:20-26; 53:10; 54:1-3
77. Isaiah 29:23 : S Ps 8:6; S Isa 19:25
78. Isaiah 29:23 : Mt 6:9
79. Isaiah 29:23 : S ver 19; S Isa 5:19
80. Isaiah 29:24 : Ps 95:10; S Pr 12:8; Isa 28:7; Heb 5:2
81. Isaiah 29:24 : Isa 1:3; 32:4; 41:20; 60:16
82. Isaiah 29:24 : Isa 30:21; 42:16

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