Isaiah 29:1

Woe To Jerusalem

¹ Woe, O Ariel, Ariel the city where David once camped!
Add year to year, observe your feasts on schedule.
² 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.

As Good as Dead

City of David

Ariel

David

2 Samuel 5:9

So David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built all around from the Millo and inward.

Isaiah 1:11-15

“What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle;
And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.

Isaiah 22:12-13

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

Isaiah 31:9

“His rock will pass away because of panic,
And his princes will be terrified at the standard,”
Declares the Lord, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 66:3

“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood;
He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol.
As they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations,

Jeremiah 7:21

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

Ezekiel 43:15-16

The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upwards four horns.

Hosea 5:6

They will go with their flocks and herds
To seek the Lord, but they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn from them.

Hosea 8:13

As for My sacrificial gifts,
They sacrifice the flesh and eat it,
But the Lord has taken no delight in them.
Now He will remember their iniquity,
And punish them for their sins;
They will return to Egypt.

Hosea 9:4

They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will be like mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be defiled,
For their bread will be for themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.

Amos 4:4-5

“Enter Bethel and transgress;
In Gilgal multiply transgression!
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
Your tithes every three days.

Micah 6:6-7

With what shall I come to the Lord
And bow myself before the God on high?
Shall I come to Him with burnt offerings,
With yearling calves?

Hebrews 10:1

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.