Isaiah 29:3 “I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and…”

Isaiah 29:3

I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

World English Bible

I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

American Standard Version

And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I wil besiege thee as a circle, and fight against thee on a mount, and will cast vp ramparts against thee.

Darby Translation

And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.

Young's Literal Translation

And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee — a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.

Bible in Basic English

And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.

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Cross references

“And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.”

Ezekiel 21:22 2 Kings 18:17 2 Kings 19:32 2 Kings 25:1–4 Matthew 22:7 2 Kings 24:11

Ezekiel 21:22 · BSB

In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a…

2 Kings 18:17 · BSB

Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqued…

2 Kings 19:32 · BSB

So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.

2 Kings 25:1–4 · BSB

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all arou…

Matthew 22:7 · BSB

The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

2 Kings 24:11 · BSB

And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.

4You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

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