and doth teach him.
[27] For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with
a rod.
[28] Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of
his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
[29] This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is
wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Isa.29
[1] Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
[2] Yet
I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
[3] And I
will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts
against thee.
[4] And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech
shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,
and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
[5] Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like
small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at
an instant suddenly.
[6] Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake,
and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
[7] And the multitude of all the
nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her,
shall be as a dream of a night vision.
[8] It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,
he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he
drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all
the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
[9] Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they
are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
[10] For the LORD hath poured out
upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers
hath he covered.
[11] And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed,
which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is
sealed:
[12] And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he
saith, I am not learned.
[13] Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their
mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward
me is taught by the precept of men:
[14] Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among
this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and
the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
[15] Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their
counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth
us?
[16] Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the
work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He
had no understanding?
[17] 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] And 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] The
meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One
of Israel.
[20] For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch
for iniquity are cut off:
[21] That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth
in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
[22] Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed
Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now
wax pale.
[23] But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall
sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
[24] They also
that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isa.30
[1] Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with
a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
[2] That walk to go down into Egypt, and
have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the
shadow of Egypt!
[3] Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow
of Egypt your confusion.
[4] For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
[5] They