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The Siege of Jerusalem

29 Ah, Ariel, Ariel,
    the city where David encamped!
Add year to year;
    let the festivals run their round.
Yet I will distress Ariel,
    and there shall be moaning and lamentation,
    and Jerusalem[a] shall be to me like an Ariel.[b]
And like David[c] I will encamp against you;
    I will besiege you with towers
    and raise siege-works against you.
Then deep from the earth you shall speak,
    from low in the dust your words shall come;
your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost,
    and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:2 Heb she
  2. Isaiah 29:2 Probable meaning, altar hearth; compare Ezek 43.15
  3. Isaiah 29:3 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

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