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Isaiah 29:3
3I will camp against you and encircle you, And I will hem you in with siege works, And I will raise fortifications against you.
Isaiah 29:3 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will encamp against you all around, I will lay siege against you with a mound, And I will raise siegeworks against you.
Context of Isaiah 29:3
1Woe (judgment is coming) to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David [once] camped! Add yet another year; let the feasts run their course [but only one year more]. 2Then 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. I will camp against you and encircle you, And I will hem you in with siege works, And I will raise fortifications against you. 4Then 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. 5But the multitude of your enemies [that assault you] will become like fine dust, And the multitude of the tyrants like the chaff which blows away; And it will happen in an instant, suddenly [that your enemy is destroyed].
Read all of Isaiah 29Isaiah 29:3 word by word
וְחָנִ֥יתִי כַדּ֖וּר עָלָ֑יִךְ וְצַרְתִּ֤י עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ מֻצָּ֔ב וַהֲקִֽימֹתִ֥י עָלַ֖יִךְ מְצֻרֹֽת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 29:3
- 2 Kings 18:17Then 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.
- 2 Kings 19:32‘Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: “He will not come to this city [Jerusalem] nor shoot an arrow there; nor will he come before it with a shield nor throw up a siege ramp against it.
- 2 Kings 24:11Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
- 2 Kings 25:1Now in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he with all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it and built siege works surrounding it.
- Ezekiel 21:22In 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.
- Matthew 22:7The king was enraged [when he heard this], and sent his soldiers and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
- Luke 19:43For 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,
Commentaries on Isaiah 29:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3And I will camp against thee round about "And I will encamp against thee like David" - For כדור caddur, some kind of military engine, כדוד kedavid, like David, is the reading of the Septuagint, two MSS. of Kennicott's, if not two more: but though Bishop Lowth adopts this reading, I think it harsh and unnecessary. Forts "Towers" - For מצרת metsuroth, read מצדות metsudoth : so the Septuagint and five MSS. of Dr. Kennicott's, one of them ancient, and four of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3And I will camp against thee - That is, I will cause an army to pitch their tents there for a siege. God regards the armies which he would employ as under his control, and speaks of them as if he would do it himself (see the note at Isaiah 10:5). Round about - (כדוּר kadûr ). As in a circle; that is, he would encompass or encircle the city. The word used here דור dûr in Isaiah 22:18, means a ball, but here it evidently means a circle; and the sense is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The Lord himself would come against Jerusalem, surrounding and attacking it.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. I--Jehovah, acting through the Assyrian, &c., His instruments (Is 10:5). mount--an artificial mound formed to out-top high walls (Is 37:33); else a station, namely, of warriors, for the siege. round about--not fully realized under Sennacherib, but in the Roman siege (Lu 19:43; 21:20). forts--siege-towers (De 20:20).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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