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Isaiah 29:2
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses Ariel, the city where David camped, during its recurring festival cycles, immediately before announcing a divine encirclement and siege.
The words — The text employs הֲצִיקוֹתִי (ha.tzi.Ko.ti), meaning I will bring distress, and תַֽאֲנִיָּה (ta.'a.ni.Yah), meaning mourning, to describe the forced state of the city.
The thread — This sequence of divine anger producing public lamentation runs through Isaiah 3:26 and Isaiah 5:25, where God’s hand strikes His people and their gates weep.
Why it lands — The verse requires a reader to acknowledge that ritual repetition cannot substitute for the reality of enforced mourning when divine judgment is actively imposed.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 5:25 Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Isaiah 3:26 And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
- Isaiah 10:5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- Isaiah 10:32 Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 17:14 In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.
- Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
- Isaiah 33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
- Isaiah 34:6 The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
- Isaiah 36:22 Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
- Isaiah 37:3 to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.