Isaiah 29 (NET)

Isaiah 29:1¹Ariel is as good as dead — Ariel, the town David besieged! Keep observing your annual rituals; celebrate your festivals on schedule.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 5:9Amos 4:4-5Mic 6:6-7Ezek 43:15-16Hos 5:6Hos 8:13Hos 9:4Isa 66:3Heb 10:1Isa 31:9

Isaiah 29:2²I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth before me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:25-30Ezek 22:31Ezek 39:17Isa 10:32Isa 10:5-6Isa 17:14Isa 24:1-12Isa 3:26Isa 33:7-9Isa 34:6

Isaiah 29:3³I will lay siege to you on all sides; I will besiege you with troops; I will raise siege works against you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:43-44Ezek 21:222 Kgs 18:172 Kgs 19:322 Kgs 24:11-122 Kgs 25:1-4Matt 22:7

Isaiah 29:4⁴You 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 8:19Ps 44:25Isa 3:8Isa 2:11-21Isa 51:23Lam 1:9

Isaiah 29:5⁵But 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:3Isa 30:13Isa 37:36Isa 17:13-14Isa 31:3Isa 10:16-19Isa 25:5Isa 31:8Job 21:18Ps 1:4

Isaiah 29:6⁶Judgment will come from the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, accompanied by thunder, earthquake, and a loud noise, by a strong gale, a windstorm, and a consuming flame of fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 13:81 Sam 2:10Matt 24:7Rev 11:19Rev 16:181 Sam 12:17-182 Sam 22:14Isa 28:2Isa 30:30Luke 21:11

Isaiah 29:7⁷It 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 20:8Mic 4:11-12Zech 12:9Isa 17:14Ps 73:20Rev 20:8-9Zech 12:3-5Zech 14:12-15Isa 37:36Isa 41:11-12

Isaiah 29:8⁸It 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 44:12Ps 73:20Isa 10:7-162 Chr 32:21

Isaiah 29:9⁹You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:21-22Isa 19:14Isa 33:13-14Isa 49:26Rev 17:6Acts 13:40-41Hab 1:5Isa 1:2Isa 22:12-13Isa 28:7-8

Isaiah 29:10¹⁰For the Lord has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes (you prophets), and covered your heads (you seers).Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 11:8Isa 44:182 Thess 2:9-12Acts 28:26-27Isa 30:10Isa 6:9-101 Sam 9:92 Cor 4:4Jer 26:8-111 Sam 26:12

Isaiah 29:11¹¹To 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:11Dan 12:4Isa 8:16Dan 12:9Matt 11:25Matt 16:17Rev 5:1-9Rev 6:1

Isaiah 29:12¹²Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 7:15-16Isa 29:18Hos 4:6Isa 28:12-13Jer 5:4

Isaiah 29:13¹³The Lord 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 33:31-33Jer 12:2Mark 7:2-13Matt 15:2-9Jer 3:10Isa 58:2-3Jer 5:2Prov 30:6Col 2:22Isa 48:1-2

Isaiah 29:14¹⁴Therefore 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 1:51 Cor 1:19-24Isa 28:21Jer 49:7John 9:39-41Isa 6:9-10Job 5:13John 9:29-34Luke 10:24Obad 1:8

Isaiah 29:15¹⁵Those 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?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 8:12Isa 47:10Isa 30:1Ps 94:7-9Ezek 9:9Isa 28:15Jer 23:24Luke 12:1-3Mal 2:17Ps 10:11-13

Isaiah 29:16¹⁶Your 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”?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 9:19-21Isa 64:8Isa 45:9-11Ps 94:8-9Jer 18:1-10Isa 24:1

Isaiah 29:17¹⁷In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 32:15Matt 19:30Heb 10:37Ezek 20:46-47Hab 2:3Hag 2:6Hos 1:9-10Hos 3:4Isa 35:1-2Isa 41:19

Isaiah 29:18¹⁸At 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 35:5Matt 11:5Prov 20:12Eph 1:17-19Isa 32:3Mark 7:37Ps 119:18Acts 26:182 Cor 4:2-6Isa 42:16-18

Isaiah 29:19¹⁹The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:5Isa 61:1Matt 11:29Matt 11:5Matt 5:5Ps 25:9Jas 1:9Matt 5:3Ps 37:11Isa 11:4

Isaiah 29:20²⁰For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 2:1Isa 28:14-22Isa 13:3Isa 29:5Isa 59:4Luke 16:14Dan 7:19-25Dan 7:7Hab 1:6-7Isa 25:4-5

Isaiah 29:21²¹those 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:10-12Jas 5:6Acts 3:14Amos 7:10-17Ezek 13:19Isa 32:7Jer 18:18Jer 20:7-10Jer 26:2-8Judg 12:6

Isaiah 29:22²²So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, has said to the family of Jacob: “Jacob will no longer be ashamed; their faces will no longer show their embarrassment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:17Isa 51:2Jer 30:101 Pet 1:18-19Isa 54:4Joel 2:27Luke 1:68Ezek 37:24Ezek 37:28Ezek 39:25-40:48

Isaiah 29:23²³For 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 2:10Isa 19:25Isa 45:11Isa 8:13Isa 49:20-26Isa 5:16Isa 60:21Hos 3:5Isa 43:21Lev 10:3

Isaiah 29:24²⁴Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 5:2Isa 28:7Luke 15:17-191 Tim 1:13-15Rev 20:2-31 Cor 6:11Acts 2:37Acts 6:7Acts 9:19-20Isa 29:10-11