David occupied the stronghold and named it the city of David. David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
Isaiah 29:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals run their round. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition WOE TO Ariel [Jerusalem], to Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add yet another year; let the feasts run their round [but only one year more]. American Standard Version (1901) Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round: Common English Bible Oh, Ariel, Ariel, town where David encamped! Year by year, let the festivals come around— Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to Ariel, to Ariel the city against which David fought: year has been added to year, the solemnities have unfolded. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version WOE to Ariel, to Ariel the city which David took! Year is added to year: the solemnities are at an end. |
David occupied the stronghold and named it the city of David. David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,
Be astounded and stunned; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk but not from wine; stagger but not from strong drink!
His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord or see the work of his hands!
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human, whoever sacrifices a lamb like one who breaks a dog’s neck, whoever presents a grain offering like one who offers pig’s blood, whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense like one who blesses an idol. Just as these have chosen their own ways and in their abominations they take delight,
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
Though they offer choice sacrifices, though they eat flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices shall not please him. Such sacrifices shall be like mourners’ bread; all who eat of it shall be defiled, for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
“These are the appointed festivals of the Lord, the holy convocations, that you shall celebrate at the time appointed for them.
Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach.