Isaiah 29 NIV NLT Parallel

◄ Isaiah 29 ►

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1Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on.

1“What sorrow awaits Ariel, the City of David. Year after year you celebrate your feasts.

2Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.

2Yet I will bring disaster upon you, and there will be much weeping and sorrow. For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means— an altar covered with blood.

3I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.

3I will be your enemy, surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls. I will build siege towers and destroy it.

4Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper.

4Then deep from the earth you will speak; from low in the dust your words will come. Your voice will whisper from the ground like a ghost conjured up from the grave.

5But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,

5“But suddenly, your ruthless enemies will be crushed like the finest of dust. Your many attackers will be driven away like chaff before the wind. Suddenly, in an instant,

6the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.

6I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will act for you with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and storm and consuming fire.

7Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night--

7All the nations fighting against Jerusalem will vanish like a dream! Those who are attacking her walls will vanish like a vision in the night.

8as when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens faint and thirsty still. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.

8A hungry person dreams of eating but wakes up still hungry. A thirsty person dreams of drinking but is still faint from thirst when morning comes. So it will be with your enemies, with those who attack Mount Zion.”

9Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.

9Are you amazed and incredulous? Don’t you believe it? Then go ahead and be blind. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from liquor!

10The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).

10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.

11For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed 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."

11All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, “We can’t read it because it is sealed.”

12Or 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."

12When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, “We don’t know how to read.”

13The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.

13And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.

14Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

14Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders. The wisdom of the wise will pass away, and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear.”

15Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?"

15What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their evil deeds in the dark! “The LORD can’t see us,” they say. “He doesn’t know what’s going on!”

16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, "You did not make me"? Can the pot say to the potter, "You know nothing"?

16How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, “He didn’t make me”? Does a jar ever say, “The potter who made me is stupid”?

17In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?

17Soon—and it will not be very long— the forests of Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will yield bountiful crops.

18In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

18In that day the deaf will hear words read from a book, and the blind will see through the gloom and darkness.

19Once more the humble will rejoice in the LORD; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

19The humble will be filled with fresh joy from the LORD. The poor will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down--

20The scoffer will be gone, the arrogant will disappear, and those who plot evil will be killed.

21those who with a word make someone out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

21Those who convict the innocent by their false testimony will disappear. A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice and who tell lies to destroy the innocent.

22Therefore this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob: "No longer will Jacob be ashamed; no longer will their faces grow pale.

22That is why the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the people of Israel, “My people will no longer be ashamed or turn pale with fear.

23When they see among them their children, the work of my hands, they will keep my name holy; they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

23For when they see their many children and all the blessings I have given them, they will recognize the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob. They will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

24Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding; those who complain will accept instruction."

24Then the wayward will gain understanding, and complainers will accept instruction.

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