Isaiah 29:3

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

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In The 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.

In Context

2then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

4You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

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Cross References

Luke 19:43For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:2-9

The Punishment of Ariel. ( b. c. 725.) 1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one… Read the whole commentary →

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