The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
- BSB All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
- NKJV The multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, Even all who fight against her and her fortress, And distress her, Shall be as a dream of a night vision.
- NASB And the multitude of all the nations who wage war against Ariel, Even all who wage war against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
- NLT All the nations fighting against Jerusalem will vanish like a dream! Those who are attacking her walls will vanish like a vision in the night.
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Quick answer
The nations attacking Jerusalem will vanish like a fleeting dream of the night.
Overview
All the armies besieging Ariel will prove as insubstantial as a passing dream. Their seeming strength will dissolve before God's intervention. This assures God's people that the powers arrayed against His purposes are ultimately fleeting and will come to nothing.
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Cross-references · 14
- Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
- Mic 4:11–12Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”
- Zech 12:9It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
- Ps 73:20As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
- Zech 14:12–15This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.
- Rev 20:8–9and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
- Zech 12:3–5It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
- Isa 17:14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
- Nah 1:3–12Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Jer 25:31–33A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,”’ says Yahweh.”
- Jer 51:42–44The sea has come up on Babylon. She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
- Zech 14:1–3Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
- Isa 37:36Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
- Isa 41:11–12Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
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