Rotherham(i)
1 Alas for Ariel, Ariel, The city against which, David, encamped,––Add ye a year to a year, Let, the festivals, come round;
2 Yet will I bring Ariel into straits,––And she shall become a bewailing and wailing, Yea she shall become to me a veritable Hearth of God.
3 And I will encamp round about against thee,––And lay siege against thee with a fort, And raise against thee siege–works;
4 And thou shalt be brought low––Out of the earth, shalt thou speak, And, out of the dust, shalt thou lower thine utterance,––And, as one that hath a familiar spirit, Out of the earth, shall come thy voice, And, out of the dust, thy speech shall chirp;
5 Then shall be, as fine dust, the multitude of thy foreigners,––And, as chaff that passeth away, the multitude of tyrants; And it shall come to pass, in a twinkling, suddenly.
6 From Yahweh of hosts, shalt thou be visited, With thunder, and with earthquake and a great noise,––hurricane and storm, and flame of fire devouring;
7 And it shall be like the dream of a night vision, With the multitude of all the nations who have been making war against Ariel,––Even with all who have been making war against her, and her stronghold, and who have been laying siege to her;
8 Yea it shall be, As when the hungry man dreameth, and lo! he is eating, But he awaketh, and his soul, is empty, Or as when the thirsty man dreameth, and lo! he is drinking, But he awaketh, and lo! he is faint, and, his soul, is craving, So, shall it be with the multitude of all the nations, that have come forth to war against Mount Zion.
9 Stand ye stock still, and stare, Besmear your eyes, and be blind,––They are drunken, but not with wine, They reel, but not with strong drink;
9 Stand ye stock still, and stare, Besmear your eyes, and be blind,––They are drunken, but not with wine, They reel, but not with strong drink;