Isaiah 29:3 I will encamp against you on all sides; I will encircle you with towers and set up my siege works against you.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
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
And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.

New American Standard Bible
I will camp against you encircling you, And I will set siegeworks against you, And I will raise up battle towers against you.

King James Bible
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with earth ramps, and I will set up my siege towers against you.

International Standard Version
Then I'll encamp against you like David, and I'll lay siege to you with towers, raise siege works against you,

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make a circle round about thee, and will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.

Darby Bible Translation
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.

Young's Literal Translation
And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee -- a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.

Cross References

Luke 19:43
For the days shall come on you, that your enemies shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,

Luke 19:44
And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone on another; because you knew not the time of your visitation.

Deuteronomy 20:20
Only the trees which you know that they be not trees for meat, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it be subdued.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

29:1-8 Ariel may signify the altar of burnt-offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make men free from judgements. Hypocrites never can please God, nor make their peace with him. God had often and long, by a host of angels, encamped round about Jerusalem for protection and deliverance; but now he fought against it. Proud looks and proud language shall be brought down by humbling providences. The destruction of Jerusalem's enemies is foretold. The army of Sennacherib went as a dream; and thus the multitudes, that through successive ages fight against God's altar and worship, shall fall. Speedily will sinners awake from their soothing dreams in the pains of hell.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. I—Jehovah, acting through the Assyrian, &c., His instruments (Isa 10:5).

mount—an artificial mound formed to out-top high walls (Isa 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).