Isaiah 29:1 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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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on.

English Standard Version
Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.

New American Standard Bible
Woe, O Ariel, Ariel the city where David once camped! Add year to year, observe your feasts on schedule.

King James Bible
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David camped! Continue year after year; let the festivals recur.

International Standard Version
"How terrible it will be for you, Aruel, Aruel, the city where David encamped! Year after year, let your festivals run their cycle.

American Standard Version
Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round:

Douay-Rheims Bible
WOE to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took: year is added to year: the solemnities are at an end.

Darby Bible Translation
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city of David's encampment! Add ye year to year; let the feasts come round.

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to Ariel, Ariel, The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go round.

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:9
So David dwelled in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them.

Isaiah 5:12
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Isaiah 22:13
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Isaiah 29:9
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Isaiah 29:13
Why the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

29:1-8 Ariel may signify the altar of burnt-offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make men free from judgements. Hypocrites never can please God, nor make their peace with him. God had often and long, by a host of angels, encamped round about Jerusalem for protection and deliverance; but now he fought against it. Proud looks and proud language shall be brought down by humbling providences. The destruction of Jerusalem's enemies is foretold. The army of Sennacherib went as a dream; and thus the multitudes, that through successive ages fight against God's altar and worship, shall fall. Speedily will sinners awake from their soothing dreams in the pains of hell.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 29

Isa 29:1-24. Coming Invasion of Jerusalem: Its Failure: Unbelief of the Jews.

This chapter opens the series of prophecies as to the invasion of Judea under Sennacherib, and its deliverance.

1. Ariel—Jerusalem; Ariel means "Lion of God," that is, city rendered by God invincible: the lion is emblem of a mighty hero (2Sa 23:20). Otherwise "Hearth of God," that is, place where the altar-fire continually burns to God (Isa 31:9; Eze 43:15, 16).

add … year to year—ironically; suffer one year after another to glide on in the round of formal, heartless "sacrifices." Rather, "add yet another year" to the one just closed [Maurer]. Let a year elapse and a little more (Isa 32:10, Margin).

let … kill sacrifices—rather, "let the beasts (of another year) go round" [Maurer]; that is, after the completion of a year "I will distress Ariel."