1 GLT Woe, Ariel, Ariel, the city{ where} David encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals come round. BSB BSB: Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
2 GLT And I shall cause distress to Ariel, and she will be mourning and lamenting; and she will be to me like Ariel. BSB BSB: And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
3 GLT And I shall encamp against you in a circle and lay siege against you{ with} siege- works, and raise against you fortresses. BSB BSB: I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.
4 GLT And you will be brought down and will speak from the ground; your speech will be low from the dust, and your voice will be like{ that of} a spirit from the ground, and out of the dust your speech will whisper. BSB BSB: You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.
5 GLT And the horde of your strangers will be like fine dust, and the horde of the oppressors as chaff passing through. And it will happen suddenly, in an instant. BSB BSB: But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
6 GLT She will be visited by Yahweh of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and a great noise, a storm and a tempest and the flames of a devouring fire. BSB BSB: you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.
7 GLT And it will be like a dream, a vision of the night: A horde of all the nations will come out against Ariel and all her assembly and her stronghold, and they will press upon her. BSB BSB: All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
8 GLT And it will be like a hungry dreamer; and behold: he is eating, but he awakes, and his stomach{ is} empty. Or, like a thirsty dreamer; and behold: he is drinking, but he awakes, and behold:{ he is} fainting and his thirst active. So will be the throng of all the nations coming out against Mount Zion. BSB BSB: as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
10 GLT For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and has covered your heads, the seers. BSB BSB: For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
12 GLT or{ if} the book is given to{ one} who{ is} not book- learned, saying,“Please read this,” and he says,“I am not book- learned.” BSB BSB: Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”
13 GLT And the Lord said,“Because this people comes close with its mouths and honors me with its lips, but its heart{ is} far from me, and their fear for me is a commandment of men{ that} has been taught! BSB BSB: Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
14 GLT Therefore, behold, I shall continue to do wonders{ with} this people, making wonders and wonders. And the wisdom of its wise will perish, and the understanding of its discerning will hide itself.” BSB BSB: Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
15 GLT Woe, those burying deeply to hide a plan from Yahweh, and in darkness are their deeds, and they say,“Who sees us, and who knows us?” BSB BSB: Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
16 GLT You reverse{ things}! Should the potter be considered like clay, so the made should say of its maker,“He did not make me,” or the created say of its creator,“He does not understand”? BSB BSB: You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
17 GLT Is{ it} not{ in} just a very little{ time} that Lebanon will be turned into a field, and the field will be considered a forest? BSB BSB: In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?
18 GLT And on that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and from the deep and from the darkness, the eyes of the blind will see. BSB BSB: On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
19 GLT And the poor will again be glad in Yahweh, and the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. BSB BSB: The humble will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 GLT For the ruthless will cease, and the scoffer will vanish, and all those lying in wait for evil will be cut down, BSB BSB: For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
21 GLT who make a man guilty with a word and lay a trap for the judge at the gate and turn away the righteous with emptiness. BSB BSB: those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.
22 GLT Therefore, thus says Yahweh— who redeemed Abraham— to the house of Jacob:“Now Jacob will not be ashamed, and now his face will not be pale. BSB BSB: Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.
23 GLT But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name, and they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and the God of Israel they will fear. BSB BSB: For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24 GLT And those erring{ in} spirit will know understanding, and complainers will learn knowledge.” BSB BSB: Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”
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