Isaiah 29:7
Good News Translation
then all the armies of the nations attacking the city of God's altar, all their weapons and equipment--everything--will vanish like a dream, like something imagined in the night.

New Revised Standard Version
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Contemporary English Version
Every brutal nation that attacks Jerusalem and makes it suffer will disappear like a dream when night is over.

New American Bible
Then like a dream, a vision of the night, Shall be the horde of all the nations who make war against Ariel: All the outposts, the siege works against it, all who distress it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.

the multitude

Isaiah 37:36 And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 41:11,12 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee. . . .

Jeremiah 25:31-33 The noise is come even to the ends of the earth: for the Lord entereth into judgment with the nations: he entereth into judgment with all flesh; the wicked I have delivered up to the sword, saith the Lord. . . .

Jeremiah 51:42-44 The sea is come up over Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. . . .

Nahum 1:3-12 The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet. . . .

Zechariah 12:3-5 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all people: all that shall lift it up shall be rent and torn, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall be gathered together against her. . . .

Zechariah 14:1-3,12-15 Behold the days of the Lord shall come, and thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee. . . .

Revelation 20:8,9 And they came upon the breadth of the earth and encompassed the camp of the saints and the beloved city. . . .

that distress

Isaiah 29:2 And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel.

as a dream

Job 20:8 As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Psalm 73:20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Context
Woe to the City of David
6And it shall be at an instant suddenly. A visitation shall come from the Lord of hosts in thunder, and with earthquake, and with a great noise of whirlwind and tempest; and with the flame of devouring fire. 7And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.8And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and drinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought against mount Sion.…
Cross References
Job 20:8
As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Psalm 73:20
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Isaiah 17:14
In the time of the evening, behold there shall be trouble: the morning shall come, and he shall not be: this is the portion of them that have wasted us, and the lot of them that spoiled us.

Isaiah 40:17
All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 41:11
Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.

Micah 4:11
Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that bringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell in the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be delivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy enemies.

Micah 4:12
And now many nations are gathered together against thee, and they say: Let her be stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion.

Nahum 1:15
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace: O Juda, keep thy festivals, and pay thy vows: for Belial shall no more pass through thee again, he is utterly cut off.

Zechariah 12:9
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Isaiah 29:6
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