Woe to Jerusalem

29 “Woe ato 1Ariel, to Ariel, the city bwhere David dwelt!

Add year to year;

Let feasts come around.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel;

There shall be heaviness and sorrow,

And it shall be to Me as Ariel.

3 I will encamp against you all around,

I will lay siege against you with a mound,

And I will raise siegeworks against you.

4 You shall be brought down,

You shall speak out of the ground;

Your speech shall be low, out of the dust;

Your voice shall be like a medium’s, cout of the ground;

And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

5 “Moreover the multitude of your dfoes

Shall be like fine dust,

And the multitude of the terrible ones

Like echaff that passes away;

Yes, it shall be fin an instant, suddenly.

6 gYou will be punished by the Lord of hosts

With thunder and hearthquake and great noise,

With storm and tempest

And the flame of devouring fire.

7 iThe multitude of all the nations who fight against 2Ariel,

Even all who fight against her and her fortress,

And distress her,

Shall be jas a dream of a night vision.

8 kIt shall even be as when a hungry man dreams,

And look—he eats;

But he awakes, and his soul is still empty;

Or as when a thirsty man dreams,

And look—he drinks;

But he awakes, and indeed he is faint,

And his soul still craves:

So the multitude of all the nations shall be,

Who fight against Mount Zion.”