Woe to Ariel: Jerusalem Under Siege

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Woe to Ari'el [fireplace on God's altar, lion of God] - Ari'el, the city where David encamped! Celebrate the feasts for a few more years,

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but then I will bring trouble to Ari'el. There will be mourning and moaning, as she becomes truly an ari'el for me.

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I will encamp all around you, besiege you with towers and mount siege-works against you.

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Prostrate, you will speak from the ground; your words will be stifled by the dust; your voice will sound like a ghost in the ground, your words like squeaks in the dust.

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But your many foes will become like fine powder, the horde of tyrants like blowing chaff, and it will happen very suddenly.

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You will be visited by ADONAI-Tzva'ot with thunder, earthquakes and loud noises, whirlwinds, tempests, flaming firestorms.

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Then, all the nations fighting Ari'el, every one at war with her, the ramparts around her, the people that trouble her will fade like a dream, like a vision in the night.

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It will be like a hungry man dreaming he's eating; but when he wakes up, his stomach is empty; or like a thirsty man dreaming he's drinking; but when he wakes up, he is dry and exhausted - it will be like this for the horde of all nations fighting against Mount Tziyon.

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