Isaiah 29:2
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall 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 is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Read in contextRevelation 19:17–18
And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
Read in contextZephaniah 1:7–8
Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
Read in contextEzekiel 39:17
And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Read in contextIsaiah 34:6
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
Read in contextLamentations 2:5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Read in contextEzekiel 22:31
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:32
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
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