1
Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.
2
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.
3
And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.
4
And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.
5
But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
Footnotes 1
[a].
Ariel could mean lion of God, or hero (2 Samuel 23:20), or altar hearth (Ezekiel 43:15-16)
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