Isaiah 29:1
Verse 1 of 24. The 29th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.
1Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Isaiah 29:1 in the World English Bible
Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;Read Isaiah 29:1 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:1
Let Jerusalem know that her external performance of religious services will not serve as an exemption from the judgments of God (v. 1): "Add year to year; go on in the road of your annual feasts, let all your males appear there three times a year before the Lord, and none empty, according to the law and custom, and let them never miss any of these solemnities: let them kill the sacrifices, as they used to do; but, as long…
Read Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:1–8: The Punishment of Ariel. (b. c. 725.)
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