1: Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye
year to year; let them kill sacrifices. |
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2: Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. |
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And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege
against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. |
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4: And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the
ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall
be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy
speech shall whisper out of the dust. |
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5: Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small
dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that
passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. |
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6: Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and
with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame
of devouring fire. |
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7: And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her,
shall be as a dream of a night vision. |
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8: It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,
he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty
man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he
is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the
nations be, that fight against mount Zion. |
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9: Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
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10: For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the
seers hath he covered. |
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11: And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a
book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: |
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12: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. |
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13: Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near
me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed
their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the
precept of men: |
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14: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work
among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom
of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent
men shall be hid. |
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15: Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and
who knoweth us? |
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16: Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed
as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He
made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had
no understanding? |
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17: Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be
turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed
as a forest? |
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18: And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book,
and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of
darkness. |
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19: The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the
poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. |
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20: For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is
consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: |
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21: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for
him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of
nought. |
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22: Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham,
concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither
shall his face now wax pale. |
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23: But when he eth his children, the work of mine hands, in
the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One
of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. |
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24: They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,
and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. |