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1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add them year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

5 Moreover the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that pass away: yes, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dream, and, behold, he eat, but he awake, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dream, and, behold, he drink, but he awake, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul have appetite:

9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

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 see us? and who know us?

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?

17 and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproved in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

22 neither shall his face now wax pale.

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3 And I will camp against them round about, and will lay siege against them with a mount, and I will raise forts against them.

4 And they shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and they speech shall be low out of the dust, and their voice shall be, as of one that have a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and their speech shall whisper out of the dust.

6 They shall 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.

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.

8 so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

9 cry you out, and cry:

10 For the LORD have poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and have closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers have he covered.

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 you: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he saith, I am not learned.

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 respect toward me is taught by the precept of men:

14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder:

17 Is it not yet a very little while,

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.

19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

22 Therefore this saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed,

23 But when he see his children, the work of my 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.

24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.