Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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;
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
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 29:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Woe To Jerusalem
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow; and it shall be to me as Ariel. 3 And I will encamp 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 that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 19:43-44
For the days shall come upon thee, that thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and encompass thee, and keep thee in on every side,
Ezekiel 21:22
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem: and they went up, and came to Jerusalem: and when they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
2 Kings 19:32
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
2 Kings 24:11-12
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants besieged it.
2 Kings 25:1-4
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it on all sides.
Matthew 22:7
But when the king heard of it, he was wroth: and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.