Isaiah 29:2
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New International Version (©1984)
Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.

New Living Translation (©2007)
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.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will torment Ariel, and the city will be filled with people grieving and mourning. The city will become like Ariel.

King James Bible
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

American King James Version
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be to me as Ariel.

American Standard Version
then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.

Bible in Basic English
And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.

Darby Bible Translation
But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.

English Revised Version
then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation: and she shall be unto me as Ariel.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to me as Ariel.

World English Bible
then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.

Geneva Study Bible

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be to me {c} as Ariel.

(c) Your city will be full of blood as an altar on which they sacrifice.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. Yet-rather, "Then."

heaviness . sorrow-rather, preserving the Hebrew paronomasia, "groaning" and "moaning."

as Ariel-either, "the city shall be as a lion of God," that is, it shall emerge from its dangers unvanquished; or "it shall be as the altar of burnt offering," consuming with fire the besiegers (Isa 29:6; Isa 30:30; 31:9; Le 10:2); or best, as Isa 29:3 continues the threat, and the promise of deliverance does not come till Isa 29:4, "it shall be like a hearth of burning," that is, a scene of devastation by fire [G. V. Smith]. The prophecy, probably, contemplates ultimately, besides the affliction and deliverance in Sennacherib's time, the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, the dispersion of the Jews, their restoration, the destruction of the enemies that besiege the city (Zec 14:2), and the final glory of Israel (Isa 29:17-24).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

29:1-8 Ariel may signify the altar of burnt-offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make men free from judgements. Hypocrites never can please God, nor make their peace with him. God had often and long, by a host of angels, encamped round about Jerusalem for protection and deliverance; but now he fought against it. Proud looks and proud language shall be brought down by humbling providences. The destruction of Jerusalem's enemies is foretold. The army of Sennacherib went as a dream; and thus the multitudes, that through successive ages fight against God's altar and worship, shall fall. Speedily will sinners awake from their soothing dreams in the pains of hell.


Isaiah 3:26 And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.
Lamentations 2:5 The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. (NASB ©1995)

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Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

I will Isa 5:25-30 10:5,6,32 17:14 24:1-12 33:7-9 36:22 37:3 Jer 32:28-32 39:4,5

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, ch 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. Isa 34:6 Eze 22:31 24:3-13 39:17 Zep 1:7,8 Re 19:17,18

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