1Woe to you, O Ariel,29:1 Or Altar Hearth or Lion of God; probably a nickname for Jerusalem; twice in this verse, twice in verse 2, and once in verse 7
2And I will constrain Ariel,
3I will camp in a circle around you;
4You will be brought low,
5But your many foes will be like fine dust,
6you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts
7All the many nations
8as when a hungry man dreams he is eating,
9Stop and be astonished;
10For the LORD has poured out on you
11And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
12Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”
13Therefore the Lord said:
14Therefore I will again confound these people
15Woe to those who dig deep
16You have turned things upside down,
17In a very short time,
18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,
19The humble will increase their joy in the LORD,
20For the ruthless will vanish,
21those who indict a man with a word,
22Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob:
23For when he sees his children around him,
24Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding,