^{1 Ref} Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add you year to year; let the feasts come round:

^{2 Ref} then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be to me as Ariel.

^{3 Ref} I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against you.

^{4 Ref} You shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

^{5 Ref} But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.

^{6 Ref} She shall be visited of Yahweh of Hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.

^{7 Ref} The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.

^{8 Ref} It shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.

^{9 Ref} Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

^{10 Ref} For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.

^{11 Ref} All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can't, for it is sealed:

^{12 Ref} and the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.

^{13 Ref} The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];

^{14 Ref} 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 shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

^{15 Ref} Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

^{16 Ref} You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him who made it, He didn't make me; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding?

^{17 Ref} Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

^{18 Ref} In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

^{19 Ref} The humble also shall increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

^{20 Ref} For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off;

^{21 Ref} that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

^{22 Ref} Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

^{23 Ref} But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.

^{24 Ref} They also who err in spirit shall come to understanding, and those who murmur shall receive instruction.