KJV King James Version
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
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Isaiah 29:1
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
WEB World English Bible
Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
ASV American Standard Version
Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Woe to Ariel, Ariel, The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go round.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 29
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city [where] David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, [and] shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ה֚וֹיH1945 · hoywoe!אֲרִיאֵ֣לH740 · a.ri.elArielאֲרִיאֵ֔לH740 · a.ri.elArielקִרְיַ֖תH7151 · qir.yahtownחָנָ֣הH2583 · cha.nahto campדָוִ֑דH1732 · da.vidDavidסְפ֥וּH3254 · ya.saphto add: againשָׁנָ֛הH8141 · sha.nehyearעַל־H5921 · aluponשָׁנָ֖הH8141 · sha.nehyearחַגִּ֥יםH2282 · chagfeastיִנְקֹֽפוּ׃H5362 · na.qaphto strike
Cross-references
2 Samuel 5:9So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.Amos 4:4-5Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three years:Micah 6:6-7Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?Hosea 9:4They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices [shall be] unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.Hosea 5:6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find [him]; he hath withdrawn himself from them.Ezekiel 43:15-16So the altar [shall be] four cubits; and from the altar and upward [shall be] four horns.Isaiah 66:3He that killeth an ox [is as if] he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.Hosea 8:13They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat [it; but] the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.Hebrews 10:1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.Isaiah 31:9And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire [is] in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.Isaiah 1:11-15To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.Jeremiah 7:21Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.Isaiah 22:12-13And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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