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The Prophecy
of Isaias 29
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year
is added to year: the solemnities are at an end.
And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be
in sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.
And I will make a circle round about thee, and will
cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks
to besiege thee.
Thou shalt be brought down, thou shalt speak out of
the earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the
ground: and thy voice shall be from the earth like that
of the python, and out of the ground thy speech shall
mutter.
And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like
small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude
of them that have prevailed against thee.
And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation
shall come from the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with
earthquake, and with a great noise of whirlwind and
tempest, and with the flame of devouring fire.
And the multitude of all nations that have fought against
Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and
all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against
it.
And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when
he is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty
dreameth, and drinketh, and after he is awake, is yet
faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be
the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought
against mount Sion.
Be astonished, and wander, waver, and stagger: be drunk,
and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness.
For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep
sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your
prophets and princes, that see visions.
And the vision of all shall be unto you as the words
of a book that is sealed, which when they shall deliver
to one that is learned, they shall say: Read this: and
he shall answer: I cannot, for it is sealed.
And the book shall be given to one that knoweth no letters,
and it shall be said to him: Read: and he shall answer:
I know no letters.
And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near
me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me,
but their heart is far from me, and they have feared
me with the commandment and doctrines of men:
Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration
in this people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for
wisdom shall perish from their wise men, and the understanding
of their prudent men shall be hid.
Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel
from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and
they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?
This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should
think against the potter, and the work should say to
the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing
framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest
not.
Is it not yet a very little while, and Libanus shall
be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed
as a forest?
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the
book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of
the blind shall see.
And the meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, and
the poor men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
For he that did prevail hath failed, the scorner is
consumed, and they are all cut off that watched for
iniquity:
That made men sin by word, and supplanted him that reproved
them in the gate, and declined in vain from the just.
Therefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Jacob,
he that redeemed Abraham: Jacob shall not now be confounded,
neither shall his countenance now be ashamed:
But when he shall see his children, the work of my hands
in the midst of him sanctifying my name, and they shall
sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall glorify the
God of Israel:
And they that erred in spirit, shall know understanding,
and they that murmured, shall learn the law. |
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