1
Ho 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 round about, and will besiege you with towers and I will 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 the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
6
you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.