Isaiah 29:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a fort, and I will raise siege works against thee.

More versions

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 Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

2 Kings 19:32

Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast a mount against it.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Ezekiel 21:22

In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounts, to build forts.

Matthew 22:7

But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Deuteronomy 20:20

Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.