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    Isaiah 29

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    A siege ends like a breakfast dream: the hungry man wakes, and the meal has vanished along with the victory.

    Ariel beneath the siegevv. 1–8

    Ariel, the city where David camped, is warned that its festivals will keep returning while mourning gathers underneath them. The attackers build their towers and siege works, but the whole army is finally reduced to the stuff of dreams: a hungry man wakes from imagined food still hungry, and a thirsty man wakes still parched. It is a remarkably domestic picture of an international catastrophe.

    The sealed scroll and the wine-free stuporvv. 9–16

    The people are told to stagger without wine, while the prophets and seers lie under a sleep poured out by the LORD. The vision is then made doubly inaccessible: one reader cannot open it because it is sealed, and the person unable to read cannot read it anyway. Lips remain busy, hearts remain elsewhere, and secret planners burrow into darkness asking who could possibly see them. The answer arrives by way of a potter, whose clay has developed opinions about its maker—a curious rebellion from the kiln.

    The orchard, the hearing, and the household restoredvv. 17–24

    Then the landscape itself changes its mind: Lebanon becomes an orchard, and the orchard seems a forest. Deaf people hear the scroll; blind people see from deep darkness; the humble and poor rejoice, while the ruthless, mockers, and false accusers disappear. The LORD, speaking of the house of Jacob, names Abraham as redeemed and imagines Jacob seeing his children around him, the work of divine hands. At last, the wayward understand and the grumblers accept instruction, which is a rather grand destination for a chapter that began with siege towers.

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    1. Isa 29:1Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

    2. Isa 29:2And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.

    3. Isa 29:3I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

    4. Isa 29:4You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

    5. Isa 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

    6. Isa 29:6you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.

    7. Isa 29:7All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,

    8. Isa 29:8as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.

    9. Isa 29:9Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

    10. Isa 29:10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

    11. Isa 29:11And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

    12. Isa 29:12Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

    13. Isa 29:13Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

    14. Isa 29:14Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”

    15. Isa 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

    16. Isa 29:16You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

    17. Isa 29:17In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?

    18. Isa 29:18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

    19. Isa 29:19The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

    20. Isa 29:20For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—

    21. Isa 29:21those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

    22. Isa 29:22Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.

    23. Isa 29:23For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

    24. Isa 29:24Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”

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    • 13Jeremiah 12:2You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
    • 13Ezekiel 33:31–33So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
    • 13Mark 7:2–13and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.
    • 13Matthew 15:2–9“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
    • 13Jeremiah 3:10Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
    • 13Isaiah 58:2–3For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
    • 16Romans 9:19–21One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
    • 15Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
    • 16Isaiah 64:8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
    • 13Proverbs 30:6Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
    • 14Habakkuk 1:5“Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
    • 15Isaiah 47:10You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
    • 13Jeremiah 5:2Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
    • 15Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
    • 16Isaiah 45:9–11Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
    • 4Isaiah 8:19When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

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