29God’s altar, Jerusalem itself, is doomed! The city where David camped is doomed! Let another year or two come and go, with its feasts and festivals, ²and then God will bring disaster on the city that is called “God’s altar”. There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an altar covered with blood.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Ah, Ariel, Ariel,

the city where David encamped!

Add year to year;

let the feasts run their round.

Yet I will distress Ariel,

and there shall be moaning and lamentation,

and she shall be to me like an Ariel.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel,

the city where David settled!

Add year to year

and let your cycle of festivals go on.

Yet I will besiege Ariel;

she will mourn and lament,

she will be to me like an altar hearth.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Woe to Ariel, Ariel,

the city where David camped!

Continue year after year;

let the festivals recur.

I will oppress Ariel,

and there will be mourning and crying,

and she will be to me like an Ariel.

NLTNew Living Translation

“What sorrow awaits Ariel, the City of David.

Year after year you celebrate your feasts.

Yet I will bring disaster upon you,

and there will be much weeping and sorrow.

For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means—

an altar covered with blood.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Ah! Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped!

Add year to year,

let festivals recur.

Yet I will inflict Ariel,

and there shall be mourning and lamentation,

and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.

KJV 1900King James Version

Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!

Add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

Yet I will distress Ariel,

And there shall be heaviness and sorrow:

And it shall be unto me as Ariel.

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