Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will camp
חנה 
Chanah 
Usage: 143

דּוּר 
Duwr 
Usage: 2

and will lay siege
צוּר 
Tsuwr 
Usage: 38

against thee with a mount
מצּב 
Mutstsab 
Usage: 1

and I will raise
קוּם 
Quwm 
Usage: 629

מצרה מצוּרה 
M@tsuwrah 
Usage: 8

Context Readings

Woe To Jerusalem

2 I will bring distress to Ariel,
And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning;
And she will be like an Ariel to me.
3 I will camp against you encircling you,
And I will set siegeworks against you,
And I will raise up battle towers against you.
4 Then you will be brought low;
From the earth you will speak,
And from the dust where you are prostrate
Your words will come.
Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the ground,
And your speech will whisper from the dust.


Cross References

Luke 19:43-44

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

Ezekiel 21:22

Into his right hand came the divination, ‘Jerusalem,’ to set battering rams, to open the mouth for slaughter, to lift up the voice with a battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build a siege wall.

2 Kings 18:17

Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the fuller’s field.

2 Kings 19:32

‘Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, “He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it.

2 Kings 24:11-12

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

2 Kings 25:1-4

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

Matthew 22:7

But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.

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