Isaiah 29:3

I will encamp against you in a circle 1 and will lay siege against you with a palisade, and I will raise siege works against you. 1

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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

2But I will besiege Ariel, and she will be mourning and lamenting; 1 and she will be to me like Ariel. 1

4You will be brought down and will speak from the ground; your speech will be low from the dust. 1 Your voice will sound like a spirit that speaks from the ground, and out of the dust your speech will whisper. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:32Therefore Yahweh says this about the king of Assyria: 1 “He will not come into this city 2 nor shoot an arrow here. 1 Neither will he come before it with shield 2 or build up a siege ramp against it. 1

2 Kings 25:1It happened that in the ninth year of the reign of King Zedekiah, in the tenth month, and on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem. He camped opposite it, and they built a siege wall around it.

Ezekiel 21:22In his right hand will be an omen about Jerusalem, to set battering rams against it, to open his mouth to order the slaughter, 1 to sound a war cry, to set battering rams against the gates, 1 to build a ramp, and to erect siege towers. 1

Luke 19:43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade around you, and surround you, and press in on you from 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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