Isaiah 29:2

I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth ¹  before me.

Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth.

I will bring distress to Ariel, And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning; And she will be like an Ariel to me.

Yet I will bring disaster upon you, and there will be much weeping and sorrow. For Jerusalem will become as her name Ariel means––an altar covered with blood.

But I'm not letting up on Jerusalem. The moaning and groaning will continue. Jerusalem to me is an Ariel.

And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.

Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and Jerusalem shall be to me like an Ariel.

Yet I will distress Ariel; There shall be heaviness and sorrow, And it shall be to Me as Ariel.

I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth ¹  before me.

¹ tn The term אֲרִיאֵל (’ari’el, “Ariel”) is the word translated “altar hearth” here. The point of the simile is not entirely clear. Perhaps the image likens Jerusalem’s coming crisis to a sacrificial fire.