Isaiah 29:3
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
And I will camp 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.
5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.
- KJV
- And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
- WEB
- I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.
- BLB
- And I will encamp in a circle against you, and I will lay siege against you with a siege-work, and I will raise against you the fortifications.
- ÅB
- Jeg vil slå leir rundt omkring deg, og jeg vil kringsette deg med vaktposter og bygge voller mot deg.
- OTB
- Jeg vil slå leir mot deg rundt omkring; jeg vil beleire deg med tårn og reise beleiringsverk mot deg.
- B1930
- Jeg vil slå leir rundt omkring dig, og jeg vil kringsette dig med vaktposter og bygge voller mot dig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 19:43–44
For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Read in contextEzekiel 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.
Read in context2 Kings 24:11–12
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
Read in context2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
Read in contextMatthew 22:7
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Read in context2 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 host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
Read in context2 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.
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