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Text -- Isaiah 29:1-24 (NET)

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Ariel is Besieged
29:1 Ariel is as good as dead– Ariel, the town David besieged! Keep observing your annual rituals, celebrate your festivals on schedule. 29:2 I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth before me. 29:3 I will lay siege to you on all sides; I will besiege you with troops; I will raise siege works against you. 29:4 You will fall; while lying on the ground you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation. 29:5 But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash. 29:6 Judgment will come from the Lord who commands armies, accompanied by thunder, earthquake, and a loud noise, by a strong gale, a windstorm, and a consuming flame of fire. 29:7 It will be like a dream, a night vision. There will be a horde from all the nations that fight against Ariel, those who attack her and her stronghold and besiege her. 29:8 It will be like a hungry man dreaming that he is eating, only to awaken and find that his stomach is empty. It will be like a thirsty man dreaming that he is drinking, only to awaken and find that he is still weak and his thirst unquenched. So it will be for the horde from all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
God’s People are Spiritually Insensitive
29:9 You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer. 29:10 For the Lord has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers). 29:11 To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say, “Read this,” he responds, “I can’t, because it is sealed.” 29:12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.” 29:13 The sovereign master says, “These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual. 29:14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.” 29:15 Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast, “Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?” 29:16 Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”?
Changes are Coming
29:17 In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest. 29:18 At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness. 29:19 The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel. 29:20 For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated29:21 those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. 29:22 So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob: “Jacob will no longer be ashamed; their faces will no longer show their embarrassment. 29:23 For when they see their children, whom I will produce among them, they will honor my name. They will honor the Holy One of Jacob; they will respect the God of Israel. 29:24 Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Abraham a son of Terah; the father of Isaac; ancestor of the Jewish nation.,the son of Terah of Shem
 · Ariel a nickname for a very fierce warriors, "lion of God".
 · David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation
 · Lebanon a mountain range and the adjoining regions (IBD)
 · Zion one of the hills on which Jerusalem was built; the temple area; the city of Jerusalem; God's people,a town and citidel; an ancient part of Jerusalem


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Isaiah | ISAIAH, 1-7 | Sennacherib | Israel | Ariel | Church | Wisdom | God | Blindness | Formalism | Reprobacy | Worship | Lion | ISAIAH, 8-9 | Infidelity | Hypocrisy | EDUCATION | Presumption | Quotations and Allusions | Salvation | more
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NET Notes: Isa 29:1 Heb “Add year to year, let your festivals occur in cycles.” This is probably a sarcastic exhortation to the people to keep up their religi...

NET Notes: Isa 29:2 The term אֲרִיאֵל (’ari’el, “Ariel”) is the word translated “altar heart...

NET Notes: Isa 29:3 The meaning of מֻצָּב (mutsav) is not certain. Because of the parallelism (note “siege works”), some t...

NET Notes: Isa 29:4 Heb “and from the dust your word will chirp.” The words “as if muttering an incantation” are supplied in the translation for c...

NET Notes: Isa 29:5 Or “violent men”; cf. NASB “the ruthless ones.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:6 Heb “from the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts] there will be visitation.” The third feminine singular passive v...

NET Notes: Isa 29:8 Or “that he is faint and that he [or “his appetite”] longs [for water].”

NET Notes: Isa 29:9 Some prefer to emend the perfect form of the verb to an imperative (e.g., NAB, NCV, NRSV), since the people are addressed in the immediately preceding...

NET Notes: Isa 29:10 Heb “a disposition [or “spirit”] of deep sleep.” Through this mixed metaphor (sleep is likened to a liquid which one pours and...

NET Notes: Isa 29:11 Heb “one who knows a/the scroll.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:12 Heb “I do not know a scroll.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:13 Heb “their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:14 Heb “the wisdom of their wise ones will perish, the discernment of their discerning ones will keep hidden.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:15 The rhetorical questions suggest the answer, “no one.” They are confident that their deeds are hidden from others, including God.

NET Notes: Isa 29:16 Heb “that the thing made should say.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:17 The meaning of this verse is debated, but it seems to depict a reversal in fortunes. The mighty forest of Lebanon (symbolic of the proud and powerful,...

NET Notes: Isa 29:18 Perhaps this depicts the spiritual transformation of the once spiritually insensitive nation (see vv. 10-12, cf. also 6:9-10).

NET Notes: Isa 29:19 See the note on the phrase “the Holy One of Israel” in 1:4.

NET Notes: Isa 29:20 Heb “and all the watchers of wrong will be cut off.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:21 Heb “and deprive by emptiness the innocent.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:22 Heb “and his face will no longer be pale.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:23 Or “fear,” in the sense of “stand in awe of.”

NET Notes: Isa 29:24 Heb “will learn instruction”; cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “will accept instruction.”

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