Dual Panel1Ariel <0740> is as good as dead <01945>– Ariel <0740>, the town <07151> David <01732> besieged <02583>! Keep observing <05595> your annual <08141> <05921> <08141> rituals, celebrate <05362> your festivals <02282> on schedule <05362>.
2I will threaten <06693> Ariel <0740>, and she will <01961> mourn intensely <0592> <08386> and become <01961> like an altar hearth <0740> before me.
3I will lay siege <02583> to you on <05921> all sides <01754>; I will besiege <06696> you with <05921> troops; I will raise <06965> siege works <04674> against <05921> you.
4You will fall <08213>; while lying <08213> on the ground <0776> you will speak <01696>; from the dust <06083> where you lie <07817>, your words <0565> will be <01961> heard. Your voice <06963> will sound like a spirit <0178> speaking from the underworld <0776>; from the dust <06083> you will chirp <06850> as if muttering an incantation <0565>.
5But the horde <01995> of invaders <02114> will be <01961> like fine <01851> dust <080>, the horde <01995> of tyrants <06184> like chaff <04671> that is blown away <05674>. It will happen <01961> suddenly <06597>, in a flash <06621>.
6Judgment <06485> will come from <05973> the Lord <03068> who commands armies <06635>, accompanied by thunder <07482>, earthquake <07494>, and a loud noise <06963>, by a strong <01419> gale <05492>, a windstorm <05591>, and a consuming <0398> flame <03851> of fire <0784>.
7It will be <01961> like a dream <02472>, a night <03915> vision <02377>. There will be a horde <01995> from all <03605> the nations <01471> that fight <06633> against <05921> Ariel <0740>, those who <03605> attack <06633> her and her stronghold <04685> and besiege <06693> her.
8It will be <01961> like a hungry <07457> man dreaming <02492> that <0834> he is eating <0398>, only to awaken <06974> and find <02009> that his stomach <05315> is empty <07386>. It will be like a thirsty <06771> man dreaming <02492> that <0834> he is drinking <08354>, only to awaken <06974> and find <02009> that he is still weak <05889> and his thirst <05315> unquenched <08264>. So <03651> it will be <01961> for the horde <01995> from all <03605> the nations <01471> that fight <06633> against <05921> Mount <02022> Zion <06726>.
9You will be shocked <04102> and amazed <08539>! You are totally blind <08173> <08173>! They are drunk <07937>, but not <03808> because of wine <03196>; they stagger <05128>, but not <03808> because of beer <07941>.
10For <03588> the Lord <03069> has poured out <05258> on <05921> you a strong urge <07307> to sleep deeply <08639>. He has shut <06105> your eyes <05869> (the prophets <05030>), and covered <03680> your heads <07218> (the seers <02374>).
11To you this entire <03605> prophetic revelation <02380> is like words <01697> in a sealed <02856> scroll <05612>. When they hand <05414> it to <0413> one who <0834> can <03045> read <05612> and say <0559>, “Read <07121> this <02088>,” he responds <0559>, “I can’t <03201> <03808>, because <03588> it is <01931> sealed <02856>.”
12Or when they hand <05414> the scroll <05612> to <05921> one who <0834> can’t <03045> <03808> read <05612> and say <0559>, “Read <07121> this <02088>,” he says <0559>, “I can’t <03045> <03808> read <05612>.”
13The sovereign master <0136> says <0559>, “These <02088> people <05971> say <06310> they are loyal <05066> to me; they say <08193> wonderful things <03513> about me, but they are not <07368> <03820> really loyal <07368> <03820> to me. Their worship <03373> consists <01961> of nothing but man-made <0376> ritual <03925> <04687>.
14Therefore <03651> I will again <03254> do an amazing thing <06381> for <0854> these <02088> people <05971>– an absolutely extraordinary deed <06382> <06381>. Wise men <02450> will have nothing to say <06>, the sages <0998> will have no <05641> explanations <0995>.”
15Those <01945> who try to hide <05641> their plans <06098> from the Lord <03068> are as good as dead, who do their work <04639> in secret <04285> and boast <0559>, “Who <04310> sees <07200> us? Who <04310> knows <03045> what we’re doing?”
16Your thinking is perverse <02017>! Should <0518> the potter <03335> be regarded <02803> as clay <02563>? Should the thing made <04639> say <0559> about its maker <06213>, “He didn’t <03808> make <06213> me”? Or should the pottery <03336> say <0559> about the potter <03335>, “He doesn’t <03808> understand <0995>”?
17In just a very <04213> short time <04592> Lebanon <03844> will turn into <07725> an orchard <03759>, and the orchard <03759> will be considered <02803> a forest <03293>.
18At that time <03117> the deaf <02795> will be able to hear <08085> words <01697> read from a scroll <05612>, and the eyes <05869> of the blind <05787> will be able to see <07200> through deep <0652> darkness <02822>.
19The downtrodden <06035> will again <03254> rejoice <08057> in the Lord <03068>; the poor <034> among humankind <0120> will take delight <01523> in the Holy One <06918> of Israel <03478>.
20For <03588> tyrants <06184> will disappear <0656>, those who taunt <03887> will vanish <03615>, and all <03605> those who love to do <08245> wrong <0205> will be eliminated <03772>–
21those <0120> who bear false <02398> testimony <01697> against a person, who entrap <03198> the one who arbitrates <06983> at the city gate <08179> and deprive <05186> the innocent <06662> of justice by making false charges <08414>.
22So <03651> this is what <03541> the Lord <03068>, the one who <0834> delivered <06299> Abraham <085>, says <0559> to <0413> the family <01004> of Jacob <03290>: “Jacob <03290> will no <03808> longer <06258> be ashamed <0954>; their faces will no <03808> longer <06258> show <02357> their embarrassment <02357>.
23For <03588> when they see <07200> their children <03206>, whom I will produce among <07130> them, they will honor <06942> my name <08034>. They will honor <06942> the Holy One <06918> of Jacob <03290>; they will respect <06206> the God <0430> of Israel <03478>.
24Those who stray <08582> morally <07307> will gain <03045> understanding <0998>; those who complain <07279> will acquire <03925> insight <03948>.