028:028 Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it.
Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it,
his horses don't grind it.
028:029 This also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful
in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
029:001 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped!
Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
029:002 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning
and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth{or, Ariel}.
029:003 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay
siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege
works against you.
029:004 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground.
Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will
be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground,
and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
029:005 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust,
and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away.
Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
029:006 She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder,
with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm,
and with the flame of a devouring fire.
029:007 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who
distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
029:008 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold,
he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied;
or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks;
but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty.
The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion
will be like that.
029:009 Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not
with strong drink.
029:010 For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered
your heads, the seers.
029:011 All vision has become to you like the words of a book that
is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying,
"Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:"
029:012 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying,
"Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."
029:013 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth
and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their
heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment
of men which has been taught;
029:014 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work
among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder;
and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding
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