Isaiah 29:1

Isaiah 29:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add year to year; Let feasts come around.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“What sorrow awaits Ariel, the City of David. Year after year you celebrate your feasts.

Context of Isaiah 29:1

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

Isaiah 29:1 word by word

ה֚וֹי אֲרִיאֵ֣ל אֲרִיאֵ֔ל קִרְיַ֖ת חָנָ֣ה דָוִ֑ד סְפ֥וּ שָׁנָ֛ה עַל־שָׁנָ֖ה חַגִּ֥ים יִנְקֹֽפוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Woeהוֹיhôy · woe!H1945
• to Arielאֲרִיאֵל'ărîy'êl · ArielH740
• the cityקִרְיָהqiryâh · townH7151
• Davidדָּוִדdâvid dâvîyd · DavidH1732
• dweltחָנָהchânâh · to campH2583
• addסָפָהsâphâh · to snatchH5595
• ye yearשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
• let them killנָקַףnâqaph · to surroundH5362
• sacrificesחַגchag châg · feastH2282

Cross-references for Isaiah 29:1

• Isaiah 31:9Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,” declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
• Ezekiel 43:15Above that, the altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.
• 2 Samuel 5:9David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward.
• Isaiah 1:11“The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the Lord. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
• Jeremiah 7:21“ ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
• Hosea 5:6When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the Lord, they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.
• Hosea 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to me, and though they eat the meat, the Lord is not pleased with them. Now he will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
• Hosea 9:4They will not pour out wine offerings to the Lord, nor will their sacrifices please him. Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat them will be unclean. This food will be for themselves; it will not come into the temple of the Lord.
• Amos 4:4“Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years.
• Hebrews 10:1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
• Isaiah 66:3But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig’s blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;
• Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Commentaries on Isaiah 29:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Ariel - That Jerusalem is here called by this name is very certain: but the reason of this name, and the meaning of it as applied to Jerusalem, is very obscure and doubtful. Some, with the Chaldee, suppose it to be taken from the hearth of the great altar of burnt-offerings which Ezekiel plainly calls by the same name, and that Jerusalem is here considered as the seat of the fire of God, אל אור ur el which should issue from thence to consume his enemies…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Wo - (compare the note at Isaiah 18:1). To Ariel - There can be no doubt that Jerusalem is here intended. The declaration that it was the city where David dwelt, as well as the entire scope of the prophecy, proves this. But still, it is not quiet clear why the city is here called “Ariel.” The margin reads, O Ariel, that is, the lion of God.‘ The word (אריאל 'ărı̂y'ēl ) is compounded of two words, and is usually supposed to be made up of ארי 'ărı̂y “a…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Judgements on Jerusalem and on its enemies. (Is. 29:1-8) The senselessness and hypocrisy of the Jews. (Is. 29:9-16) The conversion of the Gentiles, and future blessings for the Jews. (Is. 29:17-24) Verses 1-8 Ariel may signify the altar of burnt-offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make men free from judgements. Hypocrites never can please God, nor make their peace with him. God had often and long, by a host of angels…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. 1-24This chapter opens the series of prophecies as to the invasion of Judea under Sennacherib, and its deliverance. 1. Ariel--Jerusalem; Ariel means "Lion of God," that is, city rendered by God invincible: the lion is emblem of a mighty hero (2Sa 23:20). Otherwise "Hearth of God," that is, place where the altar-fire continually burns to God (Is 31:9; Eze 43:15, 16). add ... year to year--ironically; suffer one year after another to glide on in the round of…Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 29:1

• Ariel
• David
• Isaiah
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Jerusalem
• Lion

In the dictionaries

• David
• Ariel
• Close
• Mouth
• Raise
• Sennacherib
• Ah; Aha
• Deuteronomy
• Hearth
• Isaiah

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