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Woe to David’s City

Isaiah 29:2

In 11 translations

BSB
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.Or like Ariel; see the footnote for verse 1.
KJV
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
WEB
then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.or, Ariel
ASV
then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.
LSV
And I have sent distress to Ariel, || And it has been lamentation and mourning, || And it has been to me as Ariel.
YLT
And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.
DBY
But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.
DRC
And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.
GNV
But I wil bring the altar into distresse, and there shalbe heauines and sorowe, and it shall be vnto me like an altar.
JPS
Then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and moaning; and she shall be unto Me as a hearth of God.
LXXE
For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַהֲצִיק֖וֹתִי לַֽאֲרִיאֵ֑ל וְהָיְתָ֤ה תַֽאֲנִיָּה֙ וַֽאֲנִיָּ֔ה וְהָ֥יְתָה לִּ֖י כַּאֲרִיאֵֽל׃
LXX-Br
ἐκθλίψω γὰρ Ἀριήλ· καὶ ἔσται αὐτῆς ἡ ἰσχὺς καὶ ὁ πλοῦτος ἐμοί.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 5:25–30Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not…
  • Isaiah 17:14In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.
  • Isaiah 37:3to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
  • Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
  • Jeremiah 39:4–5When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.…
  • Isaiah 24:1–12Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants— people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and…
  • Ezekiel 39:17And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for…
  • Zephaniah 1:7–8Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests. “On the Day of the LORD’s sacrifice I will punish the princes, the…
  • Isaiah 10:32Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
  • Isaiah 36:22Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
  • Isaiah 34:6The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  • Lamentations 2:5The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
  • Isaiah 10:5–6Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to…
  • Isaiah 33:7–9Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is…
  • Revelation 19:17–18Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and…
  • Jeremiah 32:28–32Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it. And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this…

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