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Isaiah 29:3

Isaiah 29:3 is verse 3 of Isaiah chapter 29, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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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.

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Isaiah 29:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

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

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

4 You 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.

5 But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Kings 18:17

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 aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

2 Kings 19:32

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 24:11

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

2 Kings 24:12

Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.

2 Kings 25:1

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 around it.

2 Kings 25:2

And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

2 Kings 25:4

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

Ezekiel 21:22

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 siege wall.

Matthew 22:7

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

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

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