God’s Word Translation
Isaiah 29:3
3I will set up war camps all around you. I will blockade you with towers. I will put up mounds of dirt around 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
1How horrible it will be for you Ariel, Ariel, the city where David camped. Let year after year go by. Let your annual festivals go on. 2I will torment Ariel, and the city will be filled with people grieving and mourning. The city will become like Ariel. I will set up war camps all around you. I will blockade you with towers. I will put up mounds of dirt around you. 4When you have fallen, you will speak as you lie on the ground. Your words will be muffled by the dust. Your voice will come out of the ground like that of a ghost. Your words will be whispered from the dust. 5Your many enemies will be like fine dust. Your many foes will be like husks blown by the wind. All of this will happen suddenly, unexpectedly.
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 his commander-in-chief, his quartermaster, and his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came there and stood at the channel for the Upper Pool on the road to the Laundryman’s Field.
- 2 Kings 19:32“This is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: He will never come into this city, shoot an arrow here, hold a shield in front of it, or put up dirt ramps to attack it.
- 2 Kings 24:11King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon arrived while his officers were blockading the city.
- 2 Kings 25:1On the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. They set up camp and built dirt ramps around the city walls.
- Ezekiel 21:22The omens will indicate that he should go to the right, to Jerusalem. So he will set up his battering rams there, give the order to kill, raise a battle cry, aim the battering rams against the city gates, put up ramps, and set up blockades.
- Matthew 22:7“The king became angry. He sent his soldiers, killed those murderers, and burned their city.
- Luke 19:43The time will come when enemy armies will build a wall to surround you and close 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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