Isaiah 29:2
1 Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
3 I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.
4 You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
- KJV
- Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
- WEB
- then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.
- ASV
- then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.
- DARBY
- But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.
- BLB
- And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; and to Me she will be as Ariel!
- ÅB
- Da vil jeg gjøre det trangt for Ariel, og der skal være sorg og jammer; men så skal det[^2] bli meg et virkelig Ariel.
- OTB
- Likevel vil jeg bringe nød over Ariel, og hun skal være en by av sorg og klage; hun vil være for meg som et alterildsted.
- B1930
- Da vil jeg gjøre det trangt for Ariel, og der skal være sorg og jammer; men så skal det bli mig et virkelig Ariel. / < Jerusalem.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 5:25–30
Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
Read in contextRevelation 19:17–18
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,
Read in contextZephaniah 1:7–8
Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.
Read in contextEzekiel 39:17
And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
Read in contextIsaiah 34:6
The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Read in contextLamentations 2:5
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:31
So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
Read in contextIsaiah 10:32
Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
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