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Warnings to Jerusalem

29 How terrible it will be for you, Jerusalem.
    You are the city where David camped.
Her festivals have continued
    year after year.
I will attack Jerusalem.
    That city will be filled with sadness and crying.
    It will be like an altar to me.

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Woe to David’s City

29 Woe(A) to you, Ariel, Ariel,(B)
    the city(C) where David settled!
Add year to year
    and let your cycle of festivals(D) go on.
Yet I will besiege Ariel;(E)
    she will mourn and lament,(F)
    she will be to me like an altar hearth.[a](G)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:2 The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.