1
Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals run their round.
2
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and Jerusalem shall be to me like an Ariel.
3
And like David I will encamp against you; I will besiege you with towers and raise siegeworks against you.
4
Then deep from the earth you shall speak, from low in the dust your words shall come; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5
But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
[b].
Probable meaning, [altar hearth]; compare Ezek 43.15
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