Isaiah 29:3

Woe to Jerusalem

1 “Woe ^ato Ariel, to Ariel, the city ^bwhere David dwelt!
Add year to year;
Let feasts come around.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel;
There shall be heaviness and sorrow,
And it shall be to Me as Ariel.

3 I will encamp against you all around,
I will lay siege against you with a mound,
And I will raise siegeworks against you.

4 You shall be brought down,
You shall speak out of the ground;
Your speech shall be low, out of the dust;
Your voice shall be like a medium’s, ^aout of the ground;
And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

5 “Moreover the multitude of your ^afoes
Shall be like fine dust,
And the multitude of the terrible ones
Like ^bchaff that passes away;
Yes, it shall be ^cin an instant, suddenly.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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And I will camp against thee round about "And I will encamp against thee like David" - For caddur , some kind of military engine, kedavid , like David, is the reading of the Septuagint, two MSS. of Kennicott' s, if not two more: but though Bishop Lowth adopts this reading, I think it harsh and unnecessary.

Forts "Towers" - For metsuroth , read metsudoth : so the Septuagint and five MSS. of Dr. Kennicott' s, one of them ancient, and four of De Rossi' s.

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