Isaiah 29:3

I will cause your enemies to come to your city; they will surround it by building towers and putting in place other things with which to attack you.

Translation for Translators

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

2But I will cause you to experience a great disaster, and when that happens, people will weep and lament very much. Your city will become like [MET] an altar to me where people are burned as sacrifices.

4Then you will talk as though you were buried deep in the ground [DOU]; it will sound like someone whispering from under the ground, like [SIM] a ghost speaking from a grave.

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:32So this is what Yahweh, says about the king of Assyria: ‘His armies will not enter this city; they will not even shoot any arrows into it! His soldiers will not march outside the city gates carrying shields, and they will not even build high mounds of dirt against the city walls to enable them to attack the city.

2 Kings 25:1On January 15 of the ninth year that Zedekiah had been ruling, King Nebuchadnezzar arrived with his whole army, and they surrounded Jerusalem. They built ramps made of dirt against the walls of the city, so that they could climb up the ramps and attack the city.

Ezekiel 21:22With his right hand he will pick up the arrow marked ‘Jerusalem’. He will then command his soldiers to go to Jerusalem. When they arrive there, they will set up ◄rams/devices to batter down the walls,► and then the king will give the command for them to slaughter the people. They will shout a battle-cry, and they will set up the rams against the city gates. They will build a dirt ramp against the walls around the city, and set up things to bash those walls.

Luke 19:43I want you to know this: Soon your enemies will come and will set up a barricade around your city. They will surround the city and attack it on all sides.

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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