Isaiah 29:2

Yet will I distress Ariel, and there shall be groaning and wailing: and it shall be unto me like Ariel.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

In Context

1Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the town where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let the festivals come round in order;

3And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with hostile posts, and I will raise up entrenchments against thee.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:25For this cause is kindled the anger of the Lord against his people, and he stretcheth forth his hand against them, and he smiteth them; and the mountains tremble, and their carcasses lie like sweepings in the midst of the streets: with all this his anger is not turned away, but still is his hand stretched out.

Isaiah 10:32As yet today will he remain at Nob: then will he swing his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord maketh empty the land, and layeth it waste, marreth its surface, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

Isaiah 34:6The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is enriched with fat, 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 Edom.

Isaiah 37:3And they said unto him, Thus hath said Hezekiah, A day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of derision is this day; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

Jeremiah 39:4And it came to pass when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, that they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls: and he went out by the way of the plain.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:2-9

The Punishment of Ariel. ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 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… Read the whole commentary →

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