Isaiah 29:2

But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, and when that happens, people will weep and lament very much. Your city will become like [MET] an altar to me where people are burned as sacrifices.

Translation for Translators

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

1This is a message from Yahweh: Terrible things will happen to Jerusalem, the city where King David lived. You people continue to celebrate your festivals each year.

3I will cause your enemies to come to your city; they will surround it by building towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:25That is why Yahweh is extremely angry with his people; it is as though his hand is raised and he is ready to smash them. When he does that, the mountains will shake, and the corpses of people will be scattered in the streets like [SIM] manure. But even when that happens, Yahweh will still be very angry; he will be ready to punish his people [MET] again.

Isaiah 10:32The soldiers of Assyria will stop at Nob city outside Jerusalem. They will shake their fists as they threaten the people on Zion Hill in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 24:1Some day, Yahweh is going to destroy everything on the earth. He will devastate it and cause it to become a desert and scatter its people.

Isaiah 34:6It is as though Yahweh has a sword that is covered with blood and fat— the blood of lambs and goats and the fat of the kidneys of rams to be sacrificed. It is as though Yahweh will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah and kill many people in other cities in Edom.

Isaiah 37:3He said to them, “Tell this to Isaiah: ‘King Hezekiah says that this is a day when we are greatly distressed. Other nations are causing us to be insulted and disgraced. We are like [SIM] a woman who is about to give birth to a baby, but she does not have the strength that she needs to do it.

Jeremiah 39:4When King Zedekiah and all his soldiers realized that the army of Babylonia had broken into the city, they fled. They waited until it was dark. Then they went out of the city through the king’s garden, through the gate that was between the two walls. Then they started running toward the Jordan River Valley.

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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