1 “What sorrow awaits Ariel, the City of David.Year after year you celebrate your feasts.
2 Yet I will bring disaster upon you,and there will be much weeping and sorrow.For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means—an altar covered with blood.
3 I will be your enemy,surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls.I will build siege towersand destroy it.
4 Then deep from the earth you will speak;from low in the dust your words will come.Your voice will whisper from the groundlike a ghost conjured up from the grave.
5 “But suddenly, your ruthless enemies will be crushedlike the finest of dust.Your many attackers will be driven awaylike chaff before the wind.Suddenly, in an instant,
6 I, the lord of Heaven’s Armies, will act for youwith thunder and earthquake and great noise,with whirlwind and storm and consuming fire.