Isaiah 29:2

Isaiah 29:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
• New International Version (NIV)Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Yet I will distress Ariel; There shall be heaviness and sorrow, And it shall be to Me as Ariel.

Context of Isaiah 29:2

1It will be very bad for Ariel, the city where David lived. Continue to have your usual feasts every year, but trouble will come! I will bring trouble to Ariel. The people there will be very sad and they will weep. Ariel will become like my altar for burnt offerings. 3I will bring an army to attack you. There will be soldiers all round the city so that nobody can leave. I will build strong towers against the city's walls. 4Then you will fall down to the ground. While you lie there, you will speak. Your words will come quietly from deep down in the dirt. It will seem like the voice of a dead person's spirit. You will sound like a magician who is speaking magic words.

Isaiah 29:2 word by word

וַהֲצִיק֖וֹתִי לַֽאֲרִיאֵ֑ל וְהָיְתָ֤ה תַֽאֲנִיָּה֙ וַֽאֲנִיָּ֔ה וְהָ֥יְתָה לִּ֖י כַּאֲרִיאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yet I will distressצוּקtsûq · to pressH6693
• Arielאֲרִיאֵל'ărîy'êl · ArielH740
• and there shall be heavinessתַּאֲנִיָּהta'ănîyâh · mourningH8386
• and sorrowאֲנִיָּה'ănîyâh · lamentationH592

Cross-references for Isaiah 29:2

• Isaiah 5:25So the Lord has become angry with his people. He is ready to punish them. He has lifted up his hand, so that the mountains shake. Dead bodies of people are lying all over the streets. But that is not enough! The Lord is still angry with them. His hand is ready to punish them even more.
• Isaiah 10:5It will be very bad for Assyria! I will use its army to punish my people, because I am angry with them. Assyria will be like a stick that I use to beat my people. That is how I will show them my anger.
• Isaiah 17:14Look at what happens! In the evening the enemy attacks, and we are very afraid. But by the morning they have disappeared! That is what happens to people who attack us. Anyone who tries to take away our valuable things for themselves will fail.
• Isaiah 24:1Understand this! The Lord is ready to destroy the earth. It will become a desert. He will spoil the ground. He will chase away all the people who live on it.
• Isaiah 33:7Look! Our brave soldiers are calling out in the streets. The people that we sent to make peace with our enemies are weeping.
• Isaiah 36:22Then King Hezekiah's three officers, Eliakim, Shebna and Joah, went back to Hezekiah. They had torn their clothes because they were very upset. They told the king what the Assyrian officer had said.
• Isaiah 37:3They told Hezekiah's message to Isaiah: ‘This is a time of great trouble. Assyria has insulted us to make us ashamed. Our nation is like a woman who is ready to give birth, but she is too weak to push the child out.
• Jeremiah 32:28So I, the Lord, tell you this: I will certainly give this city to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his army. They will get power over it.
• Jeremiah 39:4King Zedekiah of Judah and all his soldiers tried to escape when they saw them. They left the city at night. They took a path through the king's garden and went through the gate between the two walls of the city. Then they ran towards the Jordan Valley.
• Isaiah 43:15I am the Lord, your Holy God. I am the one who created Israel. I am your King.’
• Isaiah 34:6The Lord's sword has blood all over it! It is the blood of young sheep and goats. It has the fat of meat on it. It is the fat from sheep's kidneys. Yes! The Lord is killing animals for a sacrifice in Bozrah. He will kill many people in Edom.
• Ezekiel 22:31So I will certainly destroy them. I will punish them with my great anger, like a fire that burns them completely. I will now punish them as they deserve for their sins. That is what the Almighty Lord says.’
• Ezekiel 24:3Tell a story to these people who refuse to obey me. Say to them, “This is what the Almighty Lord says: Put the pot on the fire. Put it there now. Pour some water into the pot.
• Ezekiel 39:17Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Shout to all kinds of birds and wild animals, “Come here from all the country to eat the meal that I have prepared for you. It is a great sacrifice on Israel's mountains. There you will eat meat and you will drink blood.
• Zephaniah 1:7Be quiet! The Lord God is here. It will soon be the day of the Lord. The Lord has made his sacrifice ready. He has made the people ready who will give the sacrifice to him.’
• Revelation 19:17Then I saw an angel who was standing in the sun. He shouted loudly to all the birds that were flying high in the sky, ‘Come here! Come together to eat the big meal that God has prepared.

Commentaries on Isaiah 29:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2There shall be heaviness and sorrow "There shall be continual mourning and sorrow" - Instead of your present joy and festivity. And it shall be unto me as Ariel "And it shall be unto me as the hearth of the great altar" - That is, it shall be the seat of the fire of God; which shall issue from thence to consume his enemies. See note on Isaiah 29:1; (note). Or, perhaps, all on flame; as it was when taken by the Chaldeans; or covered with carcasses and…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Yet I will distress Ariel - The reference here is doubtless to the siege which God says Isaiah 29:3 he would bring upon the guilty and formal city. And there shall be heaviness and sorrow - This was true of the city in the siege of Sennacherib, to which this probably refers. Though the city was delivered in a sudden and remarkable manner (see the note at Isaiah 29:7-8), yet it was also true that it was reduced to great distress (see Isaiah 29:1 Jerusalem…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2Ariel was another name for Mount Zion (Isaiah 29:8). It likely means "altar of God."Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. Yet--rather, "Then." heaviness ... sorrow--rather, preserving the Hebrew paronomasia, "groaning" and "moaning." as Ariel--either, "the city shall be as a lion of God," that is, it shall emerge from its dangers unvanquished; or "it shall be as the altar of burnt offering," consuming with fire the besiegers (Is 29:6; Is 30:30; 31:9; Le 10:2); or best, as Is 29:3 continues the threat, and the promise of deliverance does not come till Is 29:4, "it shall be…Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 29:2

• Ariel
• Isaiah
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Ariel
• Close
• Mouth
• Raise
• Sennacherib
• Deuteronomy
• Heavy; Heaviness
• Isaiah
• Lion
• Sorrow

Commentaries on Isaiah 29

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings