Isaiah 29:2 “And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation…”

Isaiah 29:2

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

World English Bible

then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

American Standard Version

then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.

Geneva Bible 1599

But I wil bring the altar into distresse, and there shalbe heauines and sorowe, and it shall be vnto me like an altar.

Darby Translation

But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have sent distress to Ariel, And it hath been lamentation and mourning, And it hath been to me as Ariel.

Bible in Basic English

And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.

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Cross references

“I will”

Isaiah 5:25–30 Isaiah 10:32 Isaiah 17:14 Isaiah 24:1–12 Isaiah 33:7–9 Isaiah 36:22

Isaiah 5:25–30 · BSB

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turne…

Isaiah 10:32 · BSB

Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 17:14 · BSB

In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.

Isaiah 24:1–12 · BSB

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

Isaiah 33:7–9 · BSB

Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

Isaiah 36:22 · BSB

Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

“and it shall”

Isaiah 34:6 Ezekiel 22:31 Ezekiel 39:17 Ezekiel 24:3–13 Zephaniah 1:7 Zephaniah 1:8

Isaiah 34:6 · BSB

The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Ezekiel 22:31 · BSB

So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

Ezekiel 39:17 · BSB

And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you…

Ezekiel 24:3–13 · BSB

Now speak a parable to this rebellious house and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Put the pot on the fire; put it on and pour in the water.

Zephaniah 1:7 · BSB

Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.

Zephaniah 1:8 · BSB

“On the Day of the LORD’s sacrifice I will punish the princes, the sons of the king, and all who are dressed in foreign apparel.

Also

Lamentations 2:5 Isaiah 3:26

Lamentations 2:5 · BSB

The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

Isaiah 3:26 · BSB

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

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

In context

1Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

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

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