2 Yet I will besiege Ariel;she will mourn and lament,she will be to me like an altar hearth.
3 I will encamp against you on all sides;I will encircle you with towersand set up my siege works against you.
4 Brought low, you will speak from the ground;your speech will mumble out of the dust.Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth;out of the dust your speech will whisper.
5 But your many enemies will become like fine dust,the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.Suddenly, in an instant,
6 the Lord Almighty will comewith thunder and earthquake and great noise,with whirlwind and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.
7 Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel,that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,will be as it is with a dream,with a vision in the night –
8 as when a hungry person dreams of eating,but awakens hungry still;as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,but awakens faint and thirsty still.So will it be with the hordes of all the nationsthat fight against Mount Zion.