“But suddenly, your ruthless enemies will be crushed like the finest of dust. Your many attackers will be driven away like chaff before the wind. Suddenly, in an instant,6I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will act for you with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and storm and consuming fire.7All the nations fighting against Jerusalem29:7 Hebrew Ariel. will vanish like a dream!

Are you amazed and incredulous? Don’t you believe it? Then go ahead and be blind. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from liquor!10For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.

And so the Lord says,“ These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their evil deeds in the dark!“ The Lord can’t see us,” they say. “He doesn’t know what’s going on!”16How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, “He didn’t make me”? Does a jar ever say, “The potter who made me is stupid”?

In that day the deaf will hear words read from a book, and the blind will see through the gloom and darkness.19The humble will be filled with fresh joy from the Lord. The poor will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.20The scoffer will be gone, the arrogant will disappear, and those who plot evil will be killed.21Those who convict the innocent by their false testimony will disappear. A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice and who tell lies to destroy the innocent.

Lord God my Father,

Keep me close, warn me when the attack is close. Open my eyes so I may truly see that your plan is perfect. My only desire is to serve you well.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen