Yet, notwithstanding all your sacrifices, I will distress Ariel, by bringing and strengthening her enemies against her. It shall be unto me as Ariel: the sense is either,
1. I will treat her like a strong and fierce lion, which, the people among whom it is endeavour 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, Ezekiel 39:17,19.