Isaiah 29:1-5

Woe to David’s City 1Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on.

2Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth. The Hebrew for altar hearth sounds like the Hebrew for Ariel.

3I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.

4Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper.

5But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,