Isaiah 29:1-8 (ESV)
The Discipline of Judah…the Church
1: Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.
2: Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an altar hearth.
3: And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.
4: And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your words shall come humbly; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your words shall whisper out of the dust.
The Futility of Hostility the Enemy
5: But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
6: you will be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
7: And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
8: As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.