Isaiah 29:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ And I will encamp against you round about, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

³ And I will make a circle round about thee, and will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.

Isaiah 29:3 Cross References

2 Kings 18:17

And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And 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.

2 Kings 19:32

‘Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

Ezekiel 21:22

Into his right hand comes the lot for Jerusalem, to open the mouth with a cry, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.

Matthew 22:7

The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Deuteronomy 20:20

Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.