Isaiah 29:1-10

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.
2 Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.[a]
3 I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.
4 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.
5 But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,
6 the LORD Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.
7 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—
8 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.
9 Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.
10 The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).

Cross References 37

  • 1. Isaiah 22:12-13; S Isaiah 28:1
  • 2. ver 2,7; 2 Samuel 5:9
  • 3. S 2 Samuel 5:7
  • 4. S Isaiah 1:14
  • 5. S ver 1
  • 6. S Isaiah 3:26; Lamentations 2:5
  • 7. Ezekiel 43:15
  • 8. Luke 19:43-44
  • 9. S 2 Kings 25:1
  • 10. Isaiah 8:19
  • 11. Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 52:2
  • 12. S Leviticus 19:31
  • 13. Isaiah 26:16
  • 14. S Deuteronomy 9:21; Psalms 78:39; Psalms 103:15; S Isaiah 2:22; Isaiah 37:27; Isaiah 40:6; Isaiah 51:12
  • 15. S Isaiah 13:11
  • 16. S Isaiah 17:13
  • 17. S Psalms 55:15; S Isaiah 17:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
  • 18. S Isaiah 26:21; Zechariah 14:1-5
  • 19. S Exodus 19:16
  • 20. Matthew 24:7; Mark 13:8; Luke 21:11; S Revelation 6:12; Revelation 11:19
  • 21. S Psalms 50:3; S Psalms 55:8; S Isaiah 28:15
  • 22. S Leviticus 10:2; Psalms 83:13-15
  • 23. Micah 4:11-12; Zechariah 12:9
  • 24. S ver 1
  • 25. S Job 20:8
  • 26. S Psalms 73:20
  • 27. ver 5,7; Isaiah 41:11,15; Jeremiah 30:16; Zechariah 12:3
  • 28. Isaiah 17:12-14; Isaiah 54:17
  • 29. ver 14; Jeremiah 4:9; Habakkuk 1:5
  • 30. S Isaiah 6:10
  • 31. Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 63:6; Jeremiah 13:13; Jeremiah 25:27
  • 32. S Leviticus 10:9; Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 51:21-22
  • 33. S Psalms 60:3; S Isaiah 3:12
  • 34. S Judges 4:21; John 1:5
  • 35. Psalms 69:23; S Isaiah 6:9-10; Isaiah 44:18; Romans 11:8*; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
  • 36. Micah 3:6
  • 37. S 1 Samuel 9:9

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The Hebrew for "altar hearth" sounds like the Hebrew for "Ariel."
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