Isaiah 29:1

“Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.”

"Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices." - Isaiah 29:1
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What does Isaiah 29:1 mean?

Isaiah 29:1 (KJV) says, "Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices." This verse begins with the word "woe," a term used throughout the Bible to express deep distress or sorrow. In this context, Isaiah is proclaiming a…

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The Burden of Ariel: A Call to True Worship

In the haunting words of the prophecy found in Isaiah 29:1, we read, “Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.” This passage may initially appear as a mere lamentation over a historical city, yet its depth calls for…

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A Prayer for Renewal and Redemption in the Heart of the City

O Sovereign Lord, As we bow before Your glorious presence, our hearts reverberate with the solemn words from the book of Isaiah. "Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! Add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices" (Isaiah 29:1). With this declaration, O God, we…

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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."
Isaiah 1:29 - "For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen."
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Isaiah 41:29 - "Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion."
Isaiah 40:29 - "He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."
Isaiah 29:24 - "They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine."
Isaiah 29:2 - "Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel."
Isaiah 29:20 - "For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:"
Isaiah 28:29 - "This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working."
"For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen." - Isaiah 1:29
Isaiah 29:9 - "¶ Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink."
Isaiah 10:29 - "They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled."
Isaiah 29:19 - "The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 29:21 - "That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought."
Isaiah 29:17 - "Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?"
Isaiah 29:18 - "¶ And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness."
Isaiah 29:12 - "And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned."
Isaiah 29:6 - "Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire."
Isaiah 29:3 - "And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee."
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Isaiah 29:15 - "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?"
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Isaiah 29:7 - "¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision."
Isaiah 29:5 - "Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly."