Isaiah 29:3

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I will encamp in a circle against you, I will besiege you with towers, and I will raise siegeworks against you.

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  • Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side. 44 They will crush you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.
  • Ezek 21:22 : 22 I too will clap My hands, and I will satisfy My wrath. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
  • 2 Kgs 18:17 : 17 The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem with a large army. They came to Jerusalem, stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool on the road to the Launderer's Field, and delivered their message.
  • 2 Kgs 19:32 : 32 Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: 'He will not enter this city, shoot an arrow here, come before it with a shield, or build a siege ramp against it.'
  • 2 Kgs 24:11-12 : 11 Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to the city while his servants were besieging it. 12 Jehoiachin, king of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his officials, and his eunuchs, went out to the king of Babylon, and the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
  • 2 Kgs 25:1-4 : 1 In the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came with his entire army against Jerusalem. He laid siege to the city and built a siege wall around it. 2 The city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city had become severe, and there was no food for the people of the land. 4 Then the city wall was breached, and all the warriors fled at night through the gate between the two walls near the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were surrounding the city. They escaped toward the Arabah.

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  • Ezek 4:2-3
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    2Build siege works against it, construct a ramp, set up camps around it, and place battering rams against it all around.

    3Then take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Set your face against it, besiege it, and let it be under siege. This will be a sign for the house of Israel.

  • Isa 29:1-2
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    81%

    1Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David camped! Add year upon year; let the festivals continue.

    2Yet I will bring distress to Ariel, and it will become mourning and lamentation; it will be to me like an altar hearth.

  • Isa 29:6-7
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    77%

    6The LORD Almighty will come with thunder, earthquake, and a loud noise—storm and tempest, and a consuming flame of fire.

    7And all the nations warring against Ariel, all who attack her and her defenses, those who bring her distress, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
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    8'Your villages in the countryside will be killed by the sword, and he will build siege walls against you, raise a siege ramp against you, and set up a shield wall against you.'

    9'He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls, and he will demolish your towers with his weapons.'

  • Job 19:12
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    12His troops assemble together; they raise a siege against me and encamp around my dwelling.

  • Amos 3:11
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    11Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: "An enemy will surround the land, bring down your strength, and plunder your fortresses."

  • Isa 29:4
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    4You will be brought low; from the ground you will speak, and your words will come in a muffled way from the dust. Your voice will sound like that of a ghost from the earth, and your speech will whisper from the dust.

  • Luke 19:43
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    43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

  • Ezek 4:7-8
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    73%

    7Direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

    8I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

  • Isa 25:12
    73%

    12He will demolish the high fortress of your walls, bring it down to the ground, to the very dust.

  • Nah 3:14
    72%

    14Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold.

  • Mic 5:11
    72%

    11I will remove sorceries from your hand, and you will have no more soothsayers.

  • Jer 6:3-4
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    3Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents surrounding her and graze, each in his place.

    4Prepare for war against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day is waning and the shadows of evening are lengthening.

  • Jer 22:7
    72%

    7I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

  • Zech 12:2
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    2Behold, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding nations. Even Judah will be besieged as Jerusalem is attacked.

  • Jer 21:13
    71%

    13Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, declares the LORD. You who say, 'Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?'

  • Zeph 1:16
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    16It is a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the high towers.

  • Deut 28:52
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    52They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Jer 1:18-19
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    18Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

    19They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue you,' declares the LORD.

  • Ezek 38:9
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    9You will ascend, coming like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land—you and all your troops and the many peoples with you.

  • Nah 2:1
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    1See, on the mountains, the feet of the one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows, for the wicked one will never again pass through you; he is completely cut off.

  • Isa 31:4
    71%

    4For this is what the LORD said to me: As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey, and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not frightened by their voice or disturbed by their noise, so the LORD of Hosts will come down to fight for Mount Zion and its hill.

  • Ezek 33:28
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    28I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.

  • Jer 21:5
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    5And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, a strong arm, in anger, in fury, and with great wrath.

  • Lev 26:32-33
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    32I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it.

    33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.

  • Amos 6:14
    70%

    14For behold, I am raising up against you, house of Israel—this is the declaration of the LORD, the God of Hosts—a nation that will oppress you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.

  • Jer 10:17
    70%

    17Gather up your belongings from the land, you who live under siege.

  • Nah 2:13
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    13The lion tears apart prey to feed its cubs and strangles it for its lionesses. He fills his dens with prey and his lairs with torn flesh.

  • Jer 15:20
    70%

    20I will make you a fortified bronze wall to these people. They will fight against you but will not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 51:14
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    14The Lord of Hosts has sworn by Himself, 'Surely, I will fill you with men as numerous as locusts, and they will raise a shout of triumph over you.'

  • Ezek 35:3
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    3Say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate wasteland.'

  • Jer 6:27
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    27I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may observe and test their ways.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.'

  • Amos 1:14
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    14So I will set fire to the wall of Rabbah, and it will consume her palaces amid shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

  • Ezek 39:3
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    3I will strike your bow out of your left hand and cause your arrows to fall from your right hand.

  • Jer 9:11
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    11Who is the wise person who may understand this? And to whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, been scorched like a desert with no one passing through?

  • Isa 31:9
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    9Their stronghold will pass away because of terror, and their officers will flee in panic at the signal. This is the declaration of the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40They will bring a crowd against you, stone you to death, and cut you to pieces with their swords.

  • Lev 26:17
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    17I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is chasing you.

  • Jer 33:4
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    4For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that have been torn down to defend against the siege ramps and the sword:

  • Ezek 32:9
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    9I will trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring about your ruin among the nations, in lands you do not know.

  • Ezek 23:24
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    24They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a vast army. They will take up shields, helmets, and armor against you on every side. I will hand you over to them for judgment, and they will punish you according to their laws.