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Add year to year,
    let festivals recur.
² Yet^[a] I will inflict Ariel,
    and there shall be mourning and lamentation,
    and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.^[b]
3 And I will encamp in a circle^[c] against you,
    and I will lay siege to you with towers^[d]
    and I will raise up siegeworks against you.
⁴ Then^[e] you shall be low;
    you shall speak from the earth,
    and your words^[f] will be low, from dust.
And your voice will be from the earth, like a ghost,
    and your word will whisper from the dust.
⁵ But^[g] the multitude of your strangers shall be like fine dust,
    and the multitude of tyrants like chaff that passes by.

with thunder and earthquake and great sound,
    storm wind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.
⁷ And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel,
    all those who fight against her and her stronghold,
        and those who inflict her shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
⁸ And it shall be as when the hungry person dreams—look, he is eating!
    And he wakes up and his inner self is empty.
Or^[h] as when the thirsty person dreams—look, he is drinking!
    And he wakes up and look, he is faint,
    and his inner self is longing for water.
So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion.
⁹ Be astonished and be amazed!
    Blind yourselves and be blinded!
They are drunk but^[i] not from wine;
    they stagger but^[j] not from strong drink.
¹⁰ For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep,
    and he has shut your eyes, the prophets,
    and he has covered your heads, the seers.

"Because this people draw near with its mouth,
    and with its lips it honors me,
and its heart is far from me,
    and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,

and a spectacle with this spectacular people.
And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish,
    and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden."
¹⁵ Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide it from Yahweh,
    and their deeds are^[p] in a dark place.
And they say, "Who sees us?
    And who knows us?"
¹⁶ Your perversity!
    As if a potter^[q] shall be regarded as the clay!
That the product of its maker says,
    "He did not make me,"
and the thing made into shape says of its potter,^[r]
    "He has no understanding."

¹⁷ In a very little while^[s] shall not Lebanon change into a fruitful land,
    and the fruitful land be regarded as a forest?
¹⁸ And on that day, the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll,
    and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and darkness.
¹⁹ And the meek have joy after joy^[t] in Yahweh,
    and the needy of the people shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel.
²⁰ For the tyrant shall be no more,
    and the scoffer shall come to an end.
And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off;
²¹     those who mislead a person into sin with a word
and set a trap for the arbitrator^[u] in the gate
    and guide away the righteous by emptiness.

"Jacob will no longer be ashamed,
    and his face will no longer grow pale.
²³ For when he sees his children,
    the work of my hands, in his midst,
they will treat my name as holy,
    and they will treat the holy one of Jacob as holy,
    and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
²⁴ And those who err in spirit will acquire^[v] understanding,
    and those who grumble will learn instruction.