Isaiah 29:1

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

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

Latin

Væ Ariel, Ariel civitas, quam expugnavit David! additus est annus ad annum: solemnitates evolutæ sunt.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Isaiah 29:1–2

Ariel was another name for Mount Zion (Isaiah 29:8). It likely means "altar of God."

Isaiah 29:1–8

During the Assyrian siege, the Lord would fight for Jerusalem. He would eventually make the Assyrians leave the city.

Isaiah 29:1–14

This is the second of the six woes (Woe …).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

2 Samuel 5:9
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.
Amos 4:4–5
“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
Micah 6:6–7
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?
Hosea 9:4
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 not enter the house of the LORD.
Hosea 5:6
They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
Isaiah 66:3
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 like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.
Hosea 8:13
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.
Ezekiel 43:15–16
The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
Isaiah 31:9
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.
Hebrews 10:1
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 22:12–13
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
Isaiah 1:11–15
“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.

Parallels

Luke 19:41–44

People

David: Anointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christ

Places

Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions

Glossary

Ariel (Place) Isaiah, Book of

Topics

Ariel: A Symbolical Name for Jerusalem David: King of Israel: Makes Conquest of Jerusalem Jerusalem: Called: Ariel Lion: Symbolical Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments

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