Isaiah 29:1
Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David [Beloved] encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
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In The King James Version
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 1:14My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. 2 They are a burden to me. 2 I am weary of bearing them. 1
Isaiah 31:9His rock will pass away by reason of terror, 2 and his princes will be afraid of the banner,” 1 says Adonai, whose fire is in Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking], 2 and his furnace in Jerusalem [City of peace].
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:1
This woe to Ariel, which we have in this chapter, is the same with the "burden of the valley of vision" ( ch. xxii. 1 ), and (it is very probable) points at the same event—the besieging of Jerusalem by the Assyrian army, which was cut off there by an angel; yet it is applicable to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and its last desolations by the Romans. Here is, I. The event itself foretold, that Jerusalem should be greatly distressed, ver. 1-4 , 6 ), but that their enemies, who distressed them,… Read the whole commentary →