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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)I will be your enemy, surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls. I will build siege towers and destroy it.

Context of Isaiah 29:3

1Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David settled! Add year to year and let your cycle of festivals go on. 2Yet I will besiege Ariel; she will mourn and lament, she will be to me like an altar hearth. I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you. 4Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper. 5But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,

Isaiah 29:3 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will campחָנָהchânâh · to campH2583
• against thee round aboutדּוּרdûr · circleH1754
• and will lay siegeצוּרtsûr · to confineH6696
• against thee with a mountמֻצָּבmûtstsâb · entrenchmentH4674
• and I will raiseקוּםqûm · to arise: raiseH6965
• fortsמְצוּרָהmetsûrâh metsûrâh · siege-worksH4694

Cross-references for Isaiah 29:3

• 2 Kings 18:17The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field.
• 2 Kings 19:32“Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria: “ ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
• 2 Kings 24:11and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it.
• 2 Kings 25:1So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it.
• Ezekiel 21:22Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works.
• Matthew 22:7The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
• Luke 19:43The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you 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

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