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Yet[a] I will inflict Ariel,
    and there shall be mourning and lamentation,
    and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.[b]
And I will encamp in a circle[c] against you,
    and I will lay siege to you with towers[d]
    and I will raise up siegeworks against you.
Then[e] you shall be low;
    you shall speak from the earth,
    and your words[f] will be low, from dust.
And your voice will be from the earth, like a ghost,
    and your word will whisper from the dust.

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  1. Isaiah 29:2 Or “And”
  2. Isaiah 29:2 Hebrew “Ariel,” which might mean “altar hearth”
  3. Isaiah 29:3 The Hebrew text literally reads “like the ball”; the LXX supports an emendation to “David”
  4. Isaiah 29:3 Hebrew “tower”
  5. Isaiah 29:4 Or “And”
  6. Isaiah 29:4 Hebrew “word”

Yet I will besiege Ariel;(A)
    she will mourn and lament,(B)
    she will be to me like an altar hearth.[a](C)
I will encamp against you on all sides;
    I will encircle(D) you with towers
    and set up my siege works(E) against you.
Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
    your speech will mumble(F) out of the dust.(G)
Your voice will come ghostlike(H) from the earth;
    out of the dust your speech will whisper.(I)

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