Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
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Gill's Exposition
Yet I will distress Ariel,.... Or "straiten" it, by causing it to be besieged; and this he would do, notwithstanding their yearly sacrifices, and their observance of their solemn feasts, and other…
Barnes' Notes
Yet I will distress Ariel - The reference here is doubtless to the siege which God says Isa 29:3 he would bring upon the guilty and formal city. And there shall be heaviness and sorrow - This was true…
That it is Jerusalem which is here called Ariel is agreed, for that was the city where David dwelt; that part of it which was called Zion was in a particular manner the city of David, in which both…
The humiliation and distress of Ariel, at the hands of the Assyrians.
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