Isaiah 29:1-4
Legacy Standard Bible
Woe to Ariel
29 Woe, O [a]Ariel, [b]Ariel the city where David once (A)camped!
Add year to year, [c](B)observe your feasts on schedule.
2 I will bring distress to [d]Ariel,
And she will be a city of mourning and (C)moaning;
And she will be like an Ariel to me.
3 And I will (D)camp against you [e]encircling you,
And I will fortify siegeworks against you,
And I will raise up fortifications against you.
4 Then you will (E)be brought low;
From the earth you will speak,
And from the dust where you are prostrate
Your words will come.
Your voice will also be like that of a [f]spirit from the ground,
And your speech will whisper from the dust.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 29:1 Lion of God, lion of Jerusalem
- Isaiah 29:1 Lion of God, lion of Jerusalem
- Isaiah 29:1 Lit let your feasts run their round
- Isaiah 29:2 See v 1, note 1
- Isaiah 29:3 Lit like a circle
- Isaiah 29:4 Or ghost
Isaiah 29:1-4
New Living Translation
A Message about Jerusalem
29 “What sorrow awaits Ariel,[a] the City of David.
Year after year you celebrate your feasts.
2 Yet I will bring disaster upon you,
and there will be much weeping and sorrow.
For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means—
an altar covered with blood.
3 I will be your enemy,
surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls.
I will build siege towers
and destroy it.
4 Then deep from the earth you will speak;
from low in the dust your words will come.
Your voice will whisper from the ground
like a ghost conjured up from the grave.
Footnotes
- 29:1 Ariel sounds like a Hebrew term that means “hearth” or “altar.”
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