May 18, 2026, Isaiah 29:1-24
May 18, 2026, Isaiah 29:1-24
29 Ah, Ariel, Ariel,
the city 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.
3 And I will encamp against you all around,
and will besiege
you with towers
and I will raise
siegeworks against you.
4 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 the voice of a ghost,
and from the dust your
speech shall whisper.
5 But the multitude of your
foreign foes shall be like small dust,
and the multitude of the
ruthless like passing chaff.
And in an instant, suddenly,
6 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 the multitude of all the nations that fight
against Ariel,
all that fight against her
and her stronghold and distress her,
shall be like a
dream, a vision of the night.
8 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 and be astonished;
blind yourselves and be
blind!
Be drunk, but not with wine;
stagger, but not with
strong drink!
10 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).
11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words
of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying,
“Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” 12 And
when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says,
“I cannot read.”
13 And the Lord said:
“Because this people 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, I will again
do wonderful things with
this people,
with wonder upon wonder;
and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of
their discerning men shall be hidden.”
15 Ah, you who hide deep
from the Lord your
counsel,
whose deeds are in
the dark,
and who say, “Who sees us?
Who knows us?”
16 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
until Lebanon shall be
turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field
shall be regarded as a forest?
18 In that day the deaf shall hear
the words of a book,
and out of their gloom and darkness
the eyes of the blind
shall see.
19 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 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 lay a snare for
him who reproves in the gate,
and with an empty
plea turn aside him who is in the right.
22 Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of
Jacob:
“Jacob shall no more be
ashamed,
no more shall his face
grow pale.
23 For when he sees his children,
the work of my hands, in
his midst,
they will sanctify my
name;
they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob
and will stand in awe of
the God of Israel.
24 And those who go astray in spirit will come to
understanding,
and those who murmur will
accept instruction.”
As you live daily, do you
remember who God is and what He has done for you repeatedly? Or do you live as
if God has no clue who you are and what you are about? I struggle with this way
too often. May God call you out and bring you back to Him.
Debbie Walker
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