Jerusalem Is Warned

1 Woe, O 1Ariel, 1Ariel the city where David once acamped!

Add year to year, 2bobserve your feasts on schedule.

2 I will bring distress to Ariel,

And she will be a city of lamenting and amourning;

And she will be like an Ariel to me.

3 I will acamp against you 1encircling you,

And I will set siegeworks against you,

And I will raise up battle towers against you.

4 Then you will abe brought low;

From the earth you will speak,

And from the dust where you are prostrate

Your words will come.

Your voice will also be like that of a 1spirit from the ground,

And your speech will whisper from the dust.

5 But the multitude of your 1enemies will become like fine adust,

And the multitude of the bruthless ones like the chaff which 2blows away;

And it will happen cinstantly, suddenly.

6 From the Lord of hosts you will be apunished with bthunder and earthquake and loud noise,

With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.

7 And the amultitude of all the nations who wage war against 1Ariel,

Even all who wage war against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,

Will be like a dream, a bvision of the night.

8 It will be as when a hungry man dreams—

And behold, he is eating;

But when he awakens, his 1hunger is not satisfied,

Or as when a thirsty man dreams—

And behold, he is drinking,

But when he awakens, behold, he is faint

And his 1thirst is not quenched.

aThus the multitude of all the nations will be

Who wage war against Mount Zion.