Isaiah 29:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 And like David I will encamp against you; I will besiege you with towers and raise siegeworks against you. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will encamp against you round about; and I will hem you in with siege works and I will set up fortifications against you. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible I will surround you like a wall, and I will lay a siege against you with assault towers, and I will raise up siegeworks against you. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will surround you like a sphere all around you, and I will raise up a rampart against you, and I will set up fortifications to blockade you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will make a circle round about thee, and will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee. |
The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the fuller’s field.
“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it.
And daughter Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
Into his right hand comes the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to call out for slaughter, for raising the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up ramps, to build siege towers.
The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
You may destroy only the trees that you know do not produce food; you may cut them down for use in building siegeworks against the town that makes war with you, until it falls.