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The Holy Bible in Modern English. Revised Edition.
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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF ISA 29:1 ODE 43.
Woe to Jerusalem!
Woe to Ariel, Ariel, David's sweet Home!
Add year upon year, as the feastings go round;—
RF ISA 29:2 But to Ariel, I will cause grief, and bring sorrow,—
For on Ariel sorrow shall come.
RF ISA 29:3 I will assail you like David,
Be cruel against you,—
And pile up a mound to invade.
RF ISA 29:4 From the earth you shall speak,
From the dust whisper words,
Like an Earth-ghost your voice,
From the dust mutter speeches,
But a distant weak hum,—
RF ISA 29:5 As flit Terrors by moaning,
Or suddenly come!
RF ISA 29:6 But the LORD of Might comes with a roar and a crash,
And the sound of a great rushing whirlwind and storm,
And a flame of devouring fire.
RF ISA 29:7 And like a night dream, be the hum of the heathen,
Who war upon Ariel, her soldiers and towers,
And cause her distress
RF ISA 29:8 As when one dreams of hunger, and seems to have eaten,
But on waking his mind finds it vain;—
Or when dreaming of thirst, he appears to have drunk,
But on waking is faint, and his mind has desire,—
So shall it be to the crowd of all nations
Who war on Mount Zion.
RF ISA 29:9 They shall wait, and be puzzled, and baffled and blinded;
Not with wine, shall be drunk, and shall reel without liquor;
RF ISA 29:10 For the LORD will pour on them a Spirit of stupor,
Close their Prophets' eyes, and will blindfold their Gazers.1
RF ISA 29:11 Their visions shall be like words sealed in a book,
Passed to one who reads not, asking, "Read this book, pray,'
And he answers, "I cannot, because it is closed."
RF ISA 29:12 Or gives to another who knows not a letter, And says, "Read this, I pray,"—
But he also answers, "I know not a letter!"
RF ISA 29:13 ODE 44.
Denunciation of Hypocrisy.
Now the Almighty demands,
Why do this people approach
With their mouth and their lips,
To pay honour to Me,
While their heart is far off?
Their reverence is worthless to Me;—
It teaches the doctrines of men!"
RF ISA 29:14 So on this Race I lay wonders,
Add wonders to wonders,
Destroying its scientists' science,
And baffling its scholars' researches."
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1. I translate Isa 29.10-11 in the third person plural, not in the second, as the sense clearly demands, I think.
RF ISA 29:15 Are they more skilled than the LORD to hide object,
And act when unseen?
When they say "Who can see us? and whoever can know it?"
RF ISA 29:16 Fools! Is the Formed thought its Framer?
Can the Work tell the Workman, "You never made me?
"Or the Made tell its Maker, "You do not know how?"
RF ISA 29:17 How long before Lebanon's wasted like Carmel?
And Carmel become like a City besieged?
RF ISA 29:18 Then the deaf in that day shall hear words that are read,
And the lost and blind eyes shall awake to their sight,
RF ISA 29:19 And the wretched again in the LORD shall delight;
And in Israel's HOLY the poor will be glad;
RF ISA 29:20 For fear ends,—insult fails,—and all rascals are broken,
RF ISA 29:21 That deceive men by words and by tricks in the Courts,
And that plot and conspire to pervert from the right.
RF ISA 29:22 Therefore thus says the LIVING, the HOUSE-GOD of Jacob,
Who was Abraham's Redeemer,
"You shall not fail, Jacob,
They shall not o'erwhelm you.
RF ISA 29:23 When his sons see My hand work for him,
They will honour MY NAME,
And worship the HOLY of Jacob,
And fear Israel's GOD;
RF ISA 29:24 Then the mad will learn reason,—
The insane will have sense."




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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