Isaiah 29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 29The Siege of Jerusalem

1 shall be to me like an Ariel.

3 I will encamp against you;

I will besiege you with towers

and raise siegeworks against you.

4 shall be like fine dust

and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff.

And in an instant, suddenly,

6 Isa 28.2; Mt 24.7; Mk 13.8; Lk 21.11; Rev 11.13, 19; 16.18 you will be visited by the Lord of hosts

with thunder and earthquake and great noise,

with whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.

7 Job 20.8; Ps 73.20; Mic 4.11, 12; Zech 12.9 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,

all that fight against her and her stronghold and who distress her,

shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.

8 Isa 54.17 Just as when a hungry person dreams of eating

and wakes up still hungry

or a thirsty person dreams of drinking

and wakes up faint, still thirsty,

so shall the multitude of all the nations be

that fight against Mount Zion.

9 Isa 51.17, 21, 22 Be astounded and stunned;

blind yourselves and be blind!

Be drunk but not from wine;

stagger but not from strong drink!

10 Ps 69.23; Isa 6.9, 10; Mic 3.6; Rom 11.8 For the Lord has poured out upon you

a spirit of deep sleep;

he has closed your eyes (the prophets)

and covered your heads (the seers).

11 Isa 8.16; 28.7; Dan 12.4, 9; Mt 13.11 The vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to those who can read with the command, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot, for it is sealed.”

12And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot read.”

13 Ezek 33.31; Mt 15.8, 9; Mk 7.6, 7 The Lord said:

Because these people draw near with their mouths

and honor me with their lips,

while their hearts are far from me

and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

14 Jer 8.9; 49.7; Hab 1.5; 1 Cor 1.19 so I will again do

amazing things with this people,

shocking and amazing.

The wisdom of their wise shall perish,

and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.

15 Ps 94.7; Isa 30.1; 57.12 Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord,

whose deeds are in the dark,

and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”

16 Isa 45.9; Jer 18.1–6; Rom 9.19–21 You turn things upside down!

Shall the potter be regarded as the clay?

Shall the thing made say of its maker,

“He did not make me,”

or the thing formed say of the one who formed it,

“He has no understanding”?

Hope for the Future

17 Isa 32.15 Shall not Lebanon in a very little while

become a fruitful field

and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?

18 v 11 ; Isa 35.5On that day the deaf shall hear

the words of a scroll,

and freed from gloom and darkness

the eyes of the blind shall see.

19 Isa 61.1; Mt 11.5; Jas 2.5 The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,

and the neediest people shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

20 v 5 ; Isa 28.14, 22; 59.4For the tyrant shall be no more,

and the scoffer shall cease to be;

all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—

21 Prov 28.21; Am 5.10, 12 those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit,

who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate

and undermine justice for the one in the right.

22 Isa 41.8; 45.17; 54.4 Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:

“No longer shall Jacob be ashamed;

no longer shall his face grow pale.

23 Isa 5.16; 8.13; 45.11; 49.20–26 For when he sees his children,

the work of my hands, in his midst,

they will sanctify my name;

they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob

and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

24 Isa 28.7 And those who err in spirit will come to understanding,

and those who grumble will accept instruction.”