Isaiah 29:2

And I have sent distress to Ariel, || And it has been lamentation and mourning, || And it has been to me as Ariel.

Literal Standard Version

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, Ariel, || The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go around.

3And I encamped, O babbler, against you, || And I laid siege against you—a camp. And I raised up bulwarks against you.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:25Therefore the anger of YHWH has burned among His people, || And He stretches out His hand against it, || And strikes it, and the mountains tremble, || And their carcass is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, || And still His hand is stretched out!

Isaiah 10:32Yet today to remain in Nob, || The mountain of the daughter of Zion waves its hand, || The hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 24:1Behold, YHWH is emptying the earth, || And is making it desolate, || And has overturned [it on] its face, || And has scattered its inhabitants.

Isaiah 34:6A sword [is] to YHWH—it has been full of blood, || It has been made fat with fatness, || With blood of lambs and male goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, || For to YHWH [is] a sacrifice in Bozrah, || And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 37:3and they say to him, “Thus said Hezekiah: A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, [is] this day; for sons have come to the birth, and there is not power to bear.

Jeremiah 39:4And it comes to pass, when Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war have seen them, that they flee and go forth by night from the city, the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and he goes forth 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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