Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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 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.
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.
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.
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
Siege » Conducted by erecting embankments parallel to the walls of the besieged city
Interlinear
Chanah
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References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 29:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Woe To Jerusalem
2 then shall Ariel be besieged, so that she shall be heavy and sorrowful, and shall be unto me even as an altar of slaughter. 3 For I will lay siege to thee round about, and keep thee in with towers, and grave up dikes against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought low, and speak out of the earth, and thy words shall go humbly out of the ground. Thy voice shall come out of the earth, like the voice of a witch, and thy talking shall groan out of the mire.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 19:43-44
For the days shall come upon thee; that thy enemies shall cast a bank about thee, and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side;
Ezekiel 21:22
But the soothsaying shall point to the right side upon Jerusalem, that he may set men of war, to smite it with a great noise, to cry out Alarum, to set battle rams against the gates, to grave up ditches, and to make bulwarks.
2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh, from Lachish, to king Hezekiah with a great Host to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and went and stood by the conduit of the uppermost pool, which is in the way to the fuller's field,
2 Kings 19:32
Wherefore thus sayeth the LORD, of the king of Assyria: He shall not come to this city, nor shoot arrow into it, nor come before with shield nor cast any bank against it -
2 Kings 24:11-12
And Nebuchadnezzar came to the city as his servants were yet a besieging of it.
2 Kings 25:1-4
Therefore, in the ninth year of his reign, the tenth day of the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon with all his power to Jerusalem: and pitched against the town and made engines against it on every side.
Matthew 22:7
When the King heard that, he was wroth, and sent forth his warriors and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city.