Isaiah 29:3

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Isaiah 29:3

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Amplified

I will camp against you and encircle you,
And I will hem you in with siege works,
And I will raise fortifications against you.

New American Standard Bible

I will camp against you encircling you,
And I will set siegeworks against you,
And I will raise up battle towers against you.

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.

Holman Bible

I will camp in a circle around you;
I will besiege you with earth ramps,
and I will set up my siege towers against you.

International Standard Version

Then I'll encamp against you like David, and I'll lay siege to you with towers, raise siege works against you,

A Conservative 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.

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.

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.

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.

Julia Smith Translation

And I encamped as a circle upon thee, and I pressed upon thee with a garrison, and I raised intrenchments against thee.

King James 2000

And I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with a mound, and I will raise siegeworks against you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I will encamp {in a circle} against you, and I will lay siege to you [with] towers and I will raise up siegeworks against you.

Modern King James verseion

And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For I will lay siege to thee round about, and keep thee in with towers, and grave up dikes against thee.

NET Bible

I will lay siege to you on all sides; I will besiege you with troops; I will raise siege works against you.

New Heart 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.

The Emphasized Bible

And I will encamp round about against thee, - And lay siege against thee with a fort, And raise against thee siege-works;

Webster

And I will encamp 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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Themes

Armies » Employed in » Besieging cities

Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Foretells the invasion of sennacherib, the distress of the jews, and the destruction of the assyrian army

Siege » Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city

Topics

Attacks On Jerusalem Foretold

Interlinear

English(KJV)

Strong's

Root Form

Definition

Usage

And I will camp

H2583

חנה
Chanah

pitch, encamp, camp, pitch ... tent, abide, dwelt, lie, rested, grows to an end

Usage: 143

against thee round about

H1754

דּוּר
Duwr

ball, round about, burn

Usage: 2

and will lay siege

H6696

צוּר
Tsuwr

besiege, lay siege, distress, bind, adversaries, assault, bags, beset, cast, fashioned, fortify, inclose, bind up

Usage: 38

against thee with a mount

H4674

מצּב
Mutstsab

mount

Usage: 1

and I will raise

H6965

קוּם
Quwm

up, arise, raise, establish, stand, perform, confirm, again, set, stablish, surely, continue, sure, abide, accomplish,

Usage: 629

forts

H4694

מצרה מצוּרה
M@tsuwrah

fenced, strong holds, forts, munitions

Usage: 8

References

Hastings

Fortification and Siegecraft

Isaiah, Book of

Smith

Mount

Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 29:3

Verse Info

Bible Rank: 26623
Isaiah Rank: 1066
1 Topic
3 Themes
7 Cross References
1 Reading
Interlinear
1 Phrase
1 Name
3 References

Context Readings

²
Then I will harass Ariel,
And she will be a city of mourning and lamenting (crying out in grief)
Yet she will be like an Ariel [an altar hearth] to Me.
³
I will camp against you and encircle you,
And I will hem you in with siege works,
And I will raise fortifications against you.
⁴
Then you [Jerusalem] will be brought low,
You will speak from the earth,
And from the dust where you lie face down
Your muffled words will come.
Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the earth [like one produced by a medium],
And your speech will whisper and squeak from the dust.

Phrases

Your Enemy

Names

David

Cross References

Luke 19:43-44

For a time [of siege] is coming when your enemies will put up a barricade [with pointed stakes] against you, and surround you [with armies] and hem you in on every side,

Ezekiel 21:22

In his right hand is the lot marked for Jerusalem: to set battering rams, to open the mouth calling for destruction, to lift up the voice with a war cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to put up assault ramps, and to build siege walls.

2 Kings 18:17

Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rabshakeh [his highest officials] with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem, and when they went up and arrived, they stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the road of the Fuller’s Field.

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