“[Zion] formed the city that David formerly stormed and afterwards rebuilt. Of its storming it is written, "Woe to Ariel, to Ariel"—that is, God's lion2 (and indeed in those days it was extremely strong).”
Jerome, 5th c. — LETTER 108.9
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1Woe 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 —
2Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.