Woe to Jerusalem

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

Add year to year,

let festivals recur.

2 Yeta I will inflict Ariel,

and there shall be mourning and lamentation,

and it shall be to me like an altar hearth.b

3 And I will encamp ⌊in a circle⌋c against you,

and I will lay siege to you with towersd

and I will raise up siegeworks against you.

4 Thene you shall be low;

you shall speak from the earth,

and your wordsf will be low, from dust.

And your voice will be from the earth, like a ghost,

and your word will whisper from the dust.

5 Butg the multitude of your strangers shall be like fine dust,

and the multitude of tyrants like chaff that passes by.

And it will happen in an instant, suddenly.

6 You will be punished by Yahweh of hosts

with thunder and earthquake and great sound,

storm wind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.

7 And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel,

all those who fight against her and her stronghold,

and those who inflict her shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.

8 And it shall be as when the hungry person dreams—look, he is eating!

And he wakes up and his inner self is empty.

Orh as when the thirsty person dreams—look, he is drinking!

And he wakes up and look, he is faint,

and his inner self is longing for water.

So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion.