Isaiah 29:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.

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  • Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, 44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
  • Ezek 21:22 : 22 At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.
  • 2 Kgs 18:17 : 17 Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field.
  • 2 Kgs 19:32 : 32 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it;
  • 2 Kgs 24:11-12 : 11 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town; 12 Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.
  • 2 Kgs 25:1-4 : 1 Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town. 2 And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land. 4 So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

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  • Ezek 4:2-3
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    2 And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

    3 And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.

  • Isa 29:1-2
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    1 Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:

    2 And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.

  • Isa 29:6-7
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    6 The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and the flame of burning fire.

    7 And all the nations making war on Ariel, and all those who are fighting against her and shutting her in with their towers, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
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    8 He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

    9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Job 19:12
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    12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

  • Amos 3:11
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    11 For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.

  • Isa 29:4
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    4 And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

  • Luke 19:43
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    43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

  • Ezek 4:7-8
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    7 And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.

    8 And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • Nah 3:14
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    14 Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Mic 5:11
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    11 I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • Jer 6:3-4
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    3 Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.

    4 Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7 And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

  • Zech 12:2
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    2 See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.

  • Jer 21:13
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    13 See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses?

  • Zeph 1:16
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    16 A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

  • Deut 28:52
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    52 Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Jer 1:18-19
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    18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

    19 They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

  • Ezek 38:9
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    9 And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you.

  • Nah 2:1
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    1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

  • Isa 31:4
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    4 For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.

  • Ezek 33:28
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    28 And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.

  • Jer 21:5
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    5 And I myself will be fighting against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even with angry feeling and passion and in great wrath.

  • Lev 26:32-33
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    32 And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

    33 And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

  • Amos 6:14
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    14 For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.

  • Jer 10:17
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    17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

  • Nah 2:13
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    13 Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

  • Jer 15:20
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    20 And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

  • Jer 51:14
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    14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.

  • Ezek 35:3
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  • Jer 6:27
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    27 I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

  • Amos 1:14
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    14 And I will make a fire in the wall of Rabbah, burning up its great houses, with loud cries in the days of war, with a storm in the day of the great wind:

  • Ezek 39:3
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    3 And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.

  • Jer 9:11
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    11 And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

  • Isa 31:9
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    9 And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.

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    40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

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    17 And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

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    4 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;

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    9 And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you.

  • Ezek 23:24
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    24 And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them.