Isaiah 29:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.”
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“Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Woe <FI>to<Fi> Ariel, Ariel, The city of the encampment of David! Add year to year, let festivals go round.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 29:1 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 23:4These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.
- 2 Samuel 5:9So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.
- Isaiah 1:11“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- Isaiah 1:14I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
- Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- Isaiah 31:9Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 66:3Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.
- Jeremiah 7:21This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
- Ezekiel 43:15The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
- Ezekiel 43:16The altar hearth shall be square at its four corners, twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide.
- Hosea 5:6They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
- Hosea 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
- Hosea 9:4They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
- Amos 4:4“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
- Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
- Hebrews 10:1For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
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