Woe to David’s City
1 Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on.
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Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.
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I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.
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Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper.
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But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,
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the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.
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Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night—
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as when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens faint and thirsty still. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
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Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.
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The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).