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Isaiah 29:2
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I will oppress Ariel,and there will be mourning and crying,and she will be to me like an Ariel.
then will I distress Ari'el, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be to me as Ari'el.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.
I will bring distress to Ariel, And she will be a city of grieving and mourning; And she will be like an Ariel to me.
I will attack Jerusalem, and that city will be filled with sadness and crying. It will be like an altar to me.
Then I will harass Ariel, And she will be a city of mourning and lamenting (crying out in grief) Yet she will be like an Ariel [an altar hearth] to Me.
then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be to me as Ariel.
But I wil bring the altar into distresse, and there shalbe heauines and sorowe, and it shall be vnto me like an altar.
I will bring distress to Ariel,And she will be a city of mourning and moaning;And she will be like an Ariel to me.
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and sorrow; she will be like an altar hearth before me.
I will still make you suffer, and your people will cry when I make an altar of you.
but then I will bring trouble to Ari'el. There will be mourning and moaning, as she becomes truly an ari'el for me.
But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.
But I will punish Ariel. The city will be filled with sadness and crying, but it will always be my Ariel.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and lamentations; and it shall be to me as Ariel.
and then God will bring disaster on the city that is called "God's altar." There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an altar covered with blood.
Yet I will inflict Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation, and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.
Then I will compress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and sorrow; and it shall be to Me as Ariel.
then shal Ariel be beseged, so that she shal be heuy and sorouful, and shal be vnto me euen as a lyon.
then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.
And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.
Then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and moaning; and she shall be unto Me as a hearth of God.
Yet I will distresse Ariel, and there shalbe heauinesse and sorrow; and it shall be vnto mee as Ariel.
I wyll lay siege vnto Ariel, so that there shalbe heauinesse and sorowe in it: and it shalbe vnto me euen an aulter of slaughter.
For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.
then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation: and she shall be unto me as Ariel.
And Y schal cumpasse Ariel, and it schal be soreuful and morenynge; and Jerusalem schal be to me as Ariel.
then I will distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be to me as Ariel.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to me as Ariel.
I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth before me.
Yet I will distress Ariel; There shall be heaviness and sorrow, And it shall be to Me as Ariel.
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.
I will bring trouble to Ariel. She will be a city of sorrow and crying. She will be like an altar covered with blood to me.
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and Jerusalem shall be to me like an Ariel.
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.
And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.
And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.
I will bring distress to Ariel, And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning; And she will be like an Ariel to me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I will: Isaiah 5:25-30, Isaiah 10:5, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 10:32, Isaiah 17:14, Isaiah 24:1-12, Isaiah 33:7-9, Isaiah 36:22, Isaiah 37:3, Jeremiah 32:28-32, Jeremiah 39:4, Jeremiah 39:5
and it shall: Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "and it shall be unto me as the hearth of the great altar;" that is, it shall be the seat of the fire of God, which shall issue from thence to consume his enemies. The hearth of the altar is expressly called ariel by Ezekiel, Ezekiel 43:15, which is put, in the former part of the verse, for Jerusalem, the city in which the altar was. The subject of this and the four following chapters, says Bp. Lowth, is the invasion of Sennacherib; the great distress of the Jews while it continued; their sudden and unexpected deliverance by God's immediate and miraculous interposition on their behalf; the subsequent prosperous state of the kingdom under Hezekiah; interspersed with severe reproofs and threats of punishment for their hypocrisy, stupidity, infidelity, their want of trust in God, and their vain reliance on the assistance of Egypt; and with promises of better times, both immediately to succeed, and to be expected in the future age. Isaiah 34:6, Ezekiel 22:31, Ezekiel 24:3-13, Ezekiel 39:17, Zephaniah 1:7, Zephaniah 1:8, Revelation 19:17, Revelation 19:18
Reciprocal: Isaiah 29:7 - that distress
Cross-References
And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!"
He said, "Behold, it is still high day, it is not time for the animals to be gathered together; water the sheep, and go, pasture them."
Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"
Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
he makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters;
they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall smite them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.
Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yet I will distress Ariel,.... Or "straiten" it, by causing it to be besieged; and this he would do, notwithstanding their yearly sacrifices, and their observance of their solemn feasts, and other ceremonies of the law, in which they placed their confidence, and neglected weightier matters:
and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; on account of the siege; by reason of the devastations of the enemy without, made on all the cities and towns in Judea round about; and because of the famine and bloodshed in the city:
and it shall be unto me as Ariel; the whole city shall be as the altar; as that was covered with the blood and carcasses of slain beasts, so this with the blood and carcasses of men; and so the Targum,
"and I will distress the city where the altar is, and it shall be desolate and empty; and it shall be surrounded before me with the blood of the slain, as the altar is surrounded with the blood of the holy sacrifices on a solemn feast day all around;''
so Jarchi and Kimchi.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Yet I will distress Ariel - The reference here is doubtless to the siege which God says Isaiah 29:3 he would bring upon the guilty and formal city.
And there shall be heaviness and sorrow - This was true of the city in the siege of Sennacherib, to which this probably refers. Though the city was delivered in a sudden and remarkable manner (see the note at Isaiah 29:7-8), yet it was also true that it was reduced to great distress (see Isaiah 36:0; Isaiah 37:0)
And it shall be unto me as Ariel - This phrase shows that in Isaiah 29:1 Jerusalem is called ‘Ariel,’ because it contained the great altar, and was the place of sacrifice. The word “Ariel” here is to be understood in the sense “of the hearth of the great altar;” and the meaning is, ‘I will indeed make Jerusalem like the great altar; I will make it the burning place of wrath where my enemies shall be consumed as if they were on the altar of burnt sacrifice.’ Thus in Isaiah 30:9, it is said of Yahweh that his ‘fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.’ This is a strong expression, denoting the calamity that was approaching; and though the main reference in this whole passage is to the distress that would come upon them in the invasion of Sennacherib, yet there is no impropriety in supposing that there was presented to the mind of the prophet in vision the image of the total ruin that would come yet upon the city by the Chaldeans - when the temple, the palaces, and the dwellings of the magnificent city of David would be in flames, and like a vast blazing altar consuming that which was laid upon it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 29:2. There shall be heaviness and sorrow - "There shall be continual mourning and sorrow"] Instead of your present joy and festivity.
And it shall be unto me as Ariel - "And it shall be unto me as the hearth of the great altar."] That is, it shall be the seat of the fire of God; which shall issue from thence to consume his enemies. See note on Isaiah 29:1. Or, perhaps, all on flame; as it was when taken by the Chaldeans; or covered with carcasses and blood, as when taken by the Romans: an intimation of which more distant events, though not immediate subjects of the prophecy, may perhaps be given in this obscure passage.
