Isaiah 29:1 “Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon y…”

Isaiah 29:1

Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Ah altar, altar of the citie that Dauid dwelt in: adde yere vnto yere: let them kill lambs.

Darby 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.

Bible in Basic English

Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:

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Cross references

“Woe, etc.”

Isaiah 31:9 Ezekiel 43:15 Ezekiel 43:16

Isaiah 31:9 · BSB

Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 43:15 · BSB

The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.

Ezekiel 43:16 · BSB

The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.

“the city”

2 Samuel 5:9

2 Samuel 5:9 · BSB

So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

“add”

Hosea 5:6 Hosea 8:13 Hosea 9:4 Hebrews 10:1 Isaiah 1:11–15 Jeremiah 7:21

Hosea 5:6 · BSB

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

Hosea 8:13 · BSB

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:4 · BSB

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will no…

Hebrews 10:1 · BSB

For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Isaiah 1:11–15 · BSB

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Jeremiah 7:21 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!

“kill”

Isaiah 66:3 Micah 6:6 Micah 6:7

Isaiah 66:3 · BSB

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is li…

Micah 6:6 · BSB

With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

Micah 6:7 · BSB

Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Also

Isaiah 22:12–13

Isaiah 22:12–13 · BSB

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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