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¹ Ah, Ariel, Ariel,
    the city ^(a)where David encamped!
Add year to year;
    let the feasts run their round.
² Yet I will distress Ariel,
    and there shall be moaning and lamentation,
    and she shall be to me like an Ariel.^[a]
3 (b)And I will encamp against you all around,
    and will besiege you ^(c)with towers
    and I will raise siegeworks against you.
^4 (d)And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak,
    and from the dust your speech will be bowed down;
your voice shall come from the ground like ^(e)the voice of a ghost,
    and from the dust your speech shall whisper.

⁵ But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like ^(f)small dust,
    and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff.
^(g)And in an instant, suddenly,
^{6     (h)}you will be visited by the Lord of hosts
with thunder and with earthquake and great noise,
    with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
⁷ And ⁽ⁱ⁾the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
    all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her,
    shall be ^(j)like a dream, a vision of the night.
^8 (k)As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating,
    and awakes with his hunger not satisfied,
or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking,
    and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched,
so shall the multitude of all the nations be
    that fight against Mount Zion.

⁹ Astonish yourselves^[b] and be astonished;
    blind yourselves and be blind!
Be drunk,^[c] but not with wine;
    ^(l)stagger,^[d] but not with strong drink!
^10 (m)For the Lord has poured out upon you
    a spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes (the prophets),
    and covered your heads (the seers).

¹³ And the Lord said:
"Because ^(o)this people ^(p)draw near with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,
    while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
¹⁴ therefore, behold, ^(q)I will again
    do wonderful things with this people,
    with wonder upon wonder;
and ^(r)the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
    and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."

¹⁵ Ah, ^(s)you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel,
    whose deeds are ^(t)in the dark,
    and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"
^16 (u)You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
    "He did not make me";
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
    "He has no understanding"?

¹⁷ Is it not yet a very little while
    ^(v)until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
    and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
¹⁸ In that day ^(w)the deaf shall hear
    ^(x)the words of a book,
and out of their gloom and darkness
    ^(y)the eyes of the blind shall see.
^19 (z)The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,
    and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
²⁰ For the ruthless shall come to nothing
    and ^(aa)the scoffer cease,
    and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
²¹ who by a word make a man out to be an offender,
    and ^(ab)lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
    and with an empty plea ^(ac)turn aside him who is in the right.

"Jacob shall no more be ashamed,
    no more shall his face grow pale.
²³ For when he sees his children,
    ^(ae)the work of my hands, in his midst,
    they will sanctify my name;
^(af)they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob
    and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
²⁴ And those ^(ag)who go astray in spirit will come to understanding,
    and those who murmur will accept instruction."