“then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 29 contains 24 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.