Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 29:2

2. Yet I will distress Ariel , and there shall be heaviness and sorrow, and it shall be unto me as Ariel .

Notwithstanding all your Sacrifices.

By bringing and strengthning her Enemies against Her.

The Sense is, Either 1. I will treat Her like a strong and fierce Lion, which the People, among whom it is, indeavour by Nets, or Pits, and all other ways to take and to destroy. Or. 2. I will make Ariel the City, like Ariel the Altar, filling it with Sacrifices, even with Men, whom I will Slay in my Anger; which Act of God's is called his Sacrifice, Ezek. 39. 17, 19.