Isaiah 29:1-8 ▼

1 Woe to you, O Ariel (Altar Hearth), the city of Ariel (lion of God) where David (beloved) camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

2 And I will constrain Ariel (lion of God), and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth (like Ariel) before Me.

3 I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

4 You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

5 But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

6 you will be visited by the LORD {YHWH} of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm (honeycomb / overflow) and tempest and consuming flame of fire.

7 All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel (lion of God)—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,

8 as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.