Holy Scripture
Isaiah 29:3
A church father on this verse
“(Chapter 19, verse 1, and following) Woe to Ariel, Ariel the city that David besieged. Year after year is added, the appointed feasts have come to an end. I will besiege Ariel, and she will be sad and mournful; she will be like an Ariel to me. I will encircle you like a sphere, and I will throw up a mound against you,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3And I will compass thee about like David, and will raise a mound about thee, and set up towers round thee.
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1Alas for the city Ariel, which David besieged. Gather ye fruits year by year; eat ye, for ye shall eat with Moab.
2For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.
— Isaiah 29:3 —
4And thy words shall be brought down to the earth, and thy words shall sink down to the earth, and thy voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and thy voice shall be lowered to the ground.
5But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress thee as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,