Bilingual reading

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

She will be visited by the LORD of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

The humble also will increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

Therefore the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

وَيلٌ لِأَريئيلَ أَريئيل المَدينَةِ الَّتي خَيَّمَ داوُدُ فيها. زيدوا سَنَةً على سَنَة ولْتَدُرِ الأَعْياد

إِنِّي أُضَيِّقُ على أَريئيل فيَكونُ تَنَهُّدٌ ونَحيب لٰكِنَّها تَكونُ لي كأَريئيل

وأُخَيِّمُ علَيكِ مُحيطًا بِكِ وأُضَيِّقُ عَليكِ بِالمَحارِس وأُقيمُ علَيكِ بُروجًا

فتُحَطِّينَ وتَتَكَلَّمينَ مِنَ الأَرض ومِن أَسفَلِ التُّرابِ تَنطِقينَ ويَكونُ صَوتُكِ كصَوتِ الرُّوحِ الآتي مِنَ الأَرض وكَلامُكِ كهَمْسٍ مِنَ التُّراب

ويَكونُ جُمْهورُ غُرَبائِكِ كالغُبارِ الدَّقيق وجُمْهورُ ظالِمِيكِ كالعُصافةِ العابِرَة. ويَكونُ على الفَورِ بَغتَةً

ٱفتِقادُ رَبِّ القُوَّات بِرَعدٍ وزَلْزالٍ وصَوتٍ عَظيم مع زَوبَعةٍ وعاصِفَةٍ ولَهيبِ نارٍ آكِلَة

فيَكونُ كالحُلمِ كرُؤيا اللَّيل جُمْهورُ جَميعِ الأُمَمِ المُقاتِلَةِ لِأَريئيل وجَميعِ الَّذينَ يُحارِبونَها مع بُروجِ الحِصار ويُضَيِّقونَ علَيها

وكما أَنَّ الجَوعانَ يَحلُمُ أَنَّه آكِل ثُمَّ يَستَيقِظُ وحَلقُه خاوٍ وكما أنَّ العَطْشانَ يَحلُمُ أَنَّه شارِب ثُمَّ يَستَيقِظُ وإِذا هو مُنهَكٌ وحَلقُه ظامِئ كذٰلك يَكونُ جُمْهورُ جَميعِ الأُمَمِ الَّتي تُقاتِلُ جَبَلَ صِهْيون

تَوالَوا ودَهِشوا، تَعامَوا وٱعمَوا. قد سَكِروا ولَيسَ مِنَ الخَمْر وتَرَنَّحوا ولَيسَ مِنَ المُسكِر

فإِنَّ الرَّبَّ قد سَكَبَ علَيكم روحَ سُبات وأَغمَضَ عُيونَكم (عُيونَ الأَنبِياء) وحَجَبَ رُؤُوسَكم (رُؤُوسَ الرَّائين)

فصارَت لَكم جَميعُ الرُّؤى كأَقوالِ كِتابٍ مَخْتومٍ يُناوِلونَه لِمَن يَعرِفُ القِراءَةَ قائلين: «إِقرأ هٰذا»، فيَقول: «لا أَستَطيع، لِأَنَّه مَخْتوم»

ثُمَّ يُناوَلُ الكِتابُ لِمَن لا يَعرِفُ القِراءَة، ويُقالُ لَه: «إِقرَأ هٰذا»، فيَقول: «لا أَعرِفُ القِراءَة»

فقالَ السَّيِّد: بِما أَنَّ هٰذا الشَّعبَ يَتَقَرَّبُ إِلَيَّ بِفَمِه ويُكرِمُني بِشَفَتَيه وقَلبُه بَعيدٌ مِنِّي وبِما أَنَّ مَخافَتَه لي وَصِيَّةُ بَشَرٍ تَعَلَّمَها

لِذٰلك هاءَنَذا أَعودُ فأَصنَعُ بِهٰذا الشَّعبِ عَجَبًا عُجابًا فحِكمَةُ حُكَمائِه تَزول وعَقْلُ عُقَلائِه يَحتَجِب

وَيلٌ لِلَّذينَ يَكتُمونَ في الأَعْماق عنِ الرَّبِّ مَشورَتَهم فأَعْمالُهم في الظَّلامِ وهم يَقولون: «مَن يَرانا ومَن يَعلَمُ بنا؟»

يا لَعِوَجِكم! أَيُحسَبُ الجابِلُ كالطِّين حتَّى يَقولَ المَصْنوعُ في صانِعِه: «لم يَصنَعْني» ويقولَ المَجْبولُ في جابِلِه: «لا عَقلَ لَه؟»

أَلَيسَ عَمَّا قَليلٍ يَتَحَوَّلُ لُبْنانُ جَنَّةً والجَنَّةُ تُحسَبُ غابًا؟

وفي ذٰلك اليَومِ يَسمَعُ الصُّمُّ أَقْوالَ الكِتاب وتُبصِرُ عُيونُ العُمْيانِ بَعدَ الدَّيجورِ والظَّلام

ويَزْدادُ البائِسونَ سُرورًا بِالرَّبّ ويَبتَهِجُ المَساكينُ مِنَ البَشَرِ بِقُدُّوسِ إِسْرائيل

لِأَنَّ الظَّالِمَ قدِ ٱنقَرَض والسَّاخِرَ قد فَنِيَ وٱستُؤصِلَ جَميعُ الَّذينَ يَسهَرونَ لِأَجلِ الإِثْم

الَّذينَ يُجَرِّمونَ الإِنْسانَ بِسَبَبِ كَلِمَة ويَنصِبونَ الفَخَّ لِمَن يَحكُمُ عِندَ الباب ويَستَميلونَ البارَّ بِأَباطيلِهم

لِذٰلك هٰكذا قالَ لِبَيتِ يَعْقوب الرَّبُّ الَّذي ٱفتَدى إِبْراهيم: إِنَّ يَعْقوبَ بَعدَ الآنَ لا يَخْزى ولا يَصفَرُّ وَجهُه

ولٰكِن مَتى رَأَى أَولادَه الَّذينَ هم أَعْمالُ يَدي في وَسَطِه فإِنَّهم يُقَدِّسونَ ٱسْمي ويُقَدِّسونَ قُدُّوسَ يَعْقوب ويَخشَونَ إِلٰهَ إِسْرائيل

والضَّالُّونَ بِالرُّوحِ يَعلَمونَ الفِطنَة والمُتَذَمِّرونَ يَتَلَقَّنونَ التَّعْليم