Isaiah 29

1 woe! Ariel Ariel town to camp David to add year upon year feast to surround

Tragedy is coming to you Ariel, Ariel the city where David lived! Year after year you have your festivals.

2 and to press to/for Ariel and to be mourning and lamentation and to be to/for me like/as Ariel

But I'm going to cause trouble for Ariel; the city will cry and mourn, it will be like an altar hearth to me.

3 and to camp like/as circle upon you and to confine upon you entrenchment and to arise: raise upon you fortress

I will surround you, I will besiege you with towers and build ramps to attack you.

4 and to abase from land: country/planet to speak: speak and from dust to bow word your and to be like/as medium from land: soil voice your and from dust word your to whisper

You will be brought down, you will speak from where you're lying on the ground, mumbling in the dust. Your words will come like a ghost from the grave; your voice will be a whisper from the dust.

5 and to be like/as dust thin crowd be a stranger your and like/as chaff to pass crowd ruthless and to be to/for suddenness suddenly

But then all your enemies will become like fine dust; all your cruel oppressors like chaff that's blown away. Then suddenly, in no time at all,

6 from from with LORD Hosts to reckon: visit in/on/with thunder and in/on/with quaking and voice: sound great: large whirlwind and tempest and flame fire to eat

the Lord Almighty will arrive with thunder, earthquake, and tremendous noise, with whirlwind, storm, and flames of fire that burn everything up.

7 and to be like/as dream vision night crowd all [the] nation [the] to serve upon Ariel and all to serve her and stronghold her and [the] to press to/for her

The nations besieging Ariel, attacking its fortifications and tormenting the people, they will all disappear as if it was a dream!

8 and to be like/as as which to dream [the] hungry and behold to eat and to awake and worthless soul: appetite his and like/as as which to dream [the] thirsty and behold to drink and to awake and behold faint and soul: appetite his to rush so to be crowd all [the] nation [the] to serve upon mountain: mount Zion

It will be like someone hungry dreaming that they're eating but who wakes up still hungry. It will be like someone thirsty dreaming of drinking but who wakes up still weak and thirsty. This is what it will be like for all your enemies, the ones attacking Mount Zion.

9 to delay and to astounded to smear and to smear be drunk and not wine to shake and not strong drink

Be shocked and amazed! Make yourselves blind so you can't see! Get drunk, but not from wine! Stagger around, but not from beer!

10 for to pour upon you LORD spirit deep sleep and to shut eyes [obj] eye your [obj] [the] prophet and [obj] head your [the] seer to cover

For the Lord has made you very sleepy, and he has shut the eyes and covered the heads of those who speak for God and see visions.

11 and to be to/for you vision [the] all like/as word [the] scroll: book [the] to seal which to give: give [obj] him to(wards) to know (scroll: book *QK) to/for to say to call: read out please this and to say not be able for to seal he/she/it

This entire vision is like words in a scroll that is sealed shut. If you give it to someone who knows how to read and say, “Please read it,” they'll say, “I can't read it because it's sealed shut.”

12 and to give: give [the] scroll: book upon which not to know scroll: read to/for to say to call: read out please this and to say not to know scroll: read

If you give it to someone who doesn't know how to read and say, “Please read it,” they'll say, “I don't know how to read.”

13 and to say Lord because for to approach: approach [the] people [the] this in/on/with lip his and in/on/with lips his to honor: honour me and heart his to remove from me and to be fear their [obj] me commandment human to learn: teach

The Lord says, “These people come and praise me with their words, and honor me with lip service, but their thoughts are miles away. Their worship of me only consists of them following rules people have taught them.

14 to/for so look! I to add: again to/for to wonder [obj] [the] people [the] this to wonder and wonder and to perish wisdom wise his and understanding to understand him to hide

So once again I will surprise these people with miracle upon miracle. The wisdom of the wise will die, and the insight of the insightful will disappear.”

15 woe! [the] be deep from LORD to/for to hide counsel and to be in/on/with darkness deed their and to say who? to see: see us and who? to know us

Tragedy is coming to people who take such trouble to hide their plans from the Lord. They work in the dark and say to themselves, “Nobody can see us, can they? Nobody will know, will they?”

16 perversity your if: surely no like/as clay [the] to form: potter to devise: think for to say deed: work to/for to make him not to make me and intention to say to/for to form: formed him not to understand

How perverse you are! It's as if the clay was thought of as making the potter! Should something made say to its maker, “You didn't make me”? Can the pot tell the potter, “You don't understand anything”?

17 not still little little and to return: return Lebanon to/for plantation and [the] plantation to/for wood to devise: think

It won't be long and the forests of Lebanon will be turned into a productive field, and a productive field will seem like a forest.

18 and to hear: hear in/on/with day [the] he/she/it [the] deaf word scroll: book and from darkness and from darkness eye blind to see: see

At that time the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and the eyes of the blind will see through the gloomy darkness what's written there.

19 and to add: again poor in/on/with LORD joy and needy man in/on/with holy Israel to rejoice

The humble will be even happier in the Lord, and the poor will find their joy in the Holy One of Israel.

20 for to end ruthless and to end: finish to mock and to cut: eliminate all to watch evil: wickedness

Cruel people will no longer exist, the scornful will vanish, and those looking to do evil will be destroyed—

21 to sin man in/on/with word and to/for to rebuke in/on/with gate to lure [emph?] and to stretch in/on/with formlessness righteous

those who say things to trick others into sin, those who trap people by legal arguments in court, those who lie to mislead the innocent.

22 to/for so thus to say LORD to(wards) house: household Jacob which to ransom [obj] Abraham not now be ashamed Jacob and not now face his to pale

So this is what the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob: “You don't need to be ashamed anymore; your faces won't grow pale with fright any longer.

23 for in/on/with to see: see he youth his deed: work hand my in/on/with entrails: among his to consecrate: consecate name my and to consecrate: consecate [obj] holy Jacob and [obj] God Israel to tremble

When you see all your children and everything I've done for you, then you will regard my character as holy, and you will respect the Holy One of Jacob. You will have reverence for the God of Israel.

24 and to know to go astray spirit understanding and to grumble to learn: learn teaching

Those who've gone astray will understand their mistakes; those who grumble will learn how to receive instruction.”