Isaiah 29:2

Yet will I bring Ariel into straits,—And she shall become a bewailing and wailing, Yea she shall become to me a veritable Hearth of God.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

1Alas for Ariel, Ariel, The city against which, David encamped,—Add ye a year to a year. Let the festivals, come round;

3And I will encamp round about against thee,—And lay siege against thee with a fort, And raise against thee siege-works;

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:25For this cause, did the anger of Yahweh kindle upon his own people, And he stretched out his hand against them and smote them—So that the mountains, trembled, And, their dead bodies, served, for fuel in the midst of the streets. For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But still, is his hand outstretched,

Isaiah 10:32While yet to-day, in Nob, he tarrieth, He brandisheth his hand toward The mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 24:1Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth and laying it waste,—And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein.

Isaiah 34:6A sword, hath Yahweh—Glutted with blood Sated with fat,—With the blood of well-fed lambs and he-goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams,—For, a sacrifice, hath Yahweh in Bozrah, Yea a great slaughter in the land of Edom;

Isaiah 37:3and they said unto him, Thus, saith Hezekiah, A day of distress and rebuke and reviling, is this day,—For children are come to the birth, and, strength, is there none to bring forth.

Jeremiah 39:4And it came to pass as soon as Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth by night out of the city, by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls,—and he went forth by way of the waste 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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