1 ¶ Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David pitched his tent! add another year; let the festivals come round.

2 Then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and sorrow: and it will be to me like a place of fire.

3 And I will encamp against you and surround you, and will lay siege against you with towers, and I will raise ramparts against you.

4 And you will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground, you will speak humbly from the dust, and your voice will come out of the ground like that of a spirit, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

5 But the horde of foreigners around you will be like fine dust, and the horde of tyrants will be like chaff that blows by: yea, it will happen unexpectedly.

6 The LORD of armies will visit you with thunder, and with earthquakes, and loud noise, with storms and wind, and devouring flames of fire.

7 And the horde of many nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream or vision of the night.

8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams that he is eating; but wakes up to find he is still hungry: or like when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking; but wakes up to find that he is faint and parched with thirst: so will be the horde from many nations, that will fight against mount Zion.

9 ¶ Look at each other and be shocked; cry out, and weep: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

10 For the LORD will pour out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, he will shut your eyes, you prophets: and will cover your heads, you seers.

11 And to you the vision of all this will be like the words of a sealed book, which men take to one who is educated, saying, Please read this, I beg you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:

12 And they take the book to one who is not educated, saying, Please read this, I beg you: and he says, I am not educated.

13 Therefore the Lord says, Because these people draw near me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear for me consists of learning man-made rules:

14 I will again do marvelous things among these people, marvelous and astonishing things: for the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will vanish.

15 Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD, and do their work in the dark, and say, Who sees us? and who knows about us?

16 You have turned things upside down as if the potter were the same as the clay: for shall what is made say about his maker, He did not make me? How can what is formed say of the one who formed it, He does not understand?

17 ¶ In just a little while, Lebanon will be turned into an orchard, and the orchard will be regarded as a forest?

18 And in that day the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the blind coming out of their gloom and darkness will see.

19 The humble will find new joy in the LORD, and the poorest among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one will vanish, the scoffer will be no more, and all who look for ways to do wrong will be destroyed:

21 Those who make a man an offender for a word, and set a trap for the one who reproves them in the gate, and with empty arguments turn aside the one who is right.

22 Therefore the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says this about the house of Jacob, Jacob will no longer be ashamed, nor will his face turn pale.

23 For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they will sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will fear the God of Israel.

24 Then those who erred in spirit will understand, and those who complained will learn doctrine.