Isaiah 29:3

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

1Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round: 2then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel. 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. 4And 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. 5But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.

Isaiah 29:3 word by word

וְחָנִ֥יתִי כַדּ֖וּר עָלָ֑יִךְ וְצַרְתִּ֤י עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ מֻצָּ֔ב וַהֲקִֽימֹתִ֥י עָלַ֖יִךְ מְצֻרֹֽת׃Read the interlinear

• encampחָנָהchânâh · to campH2583
• raiseקוּםqûm · to arise: raiseH6965

Cross-references for Isaiah 29:3

• 2 Kings 18:17And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto 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.
• 2 Kings 19:32Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
• 2 Kings 24:11And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;
• 2 Kings 25:1And 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 round about.
• Ezekiel 21:22In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
• Matthew 22:7But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
• Luke 19:43For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee 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

Topics related to Isaiah 29:3

• Armies
• Isaiah
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Siege

In the dictionaries

• Close
• Mouth
• Raise
• Sennacherib
• Fortification; Fort; Fortified Cities; Fortress
• Hill; Mount; Mountain
• Isaiah
• Siege
• Mount

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