Isaiah 29:3

World English Bible (2000)

I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

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  • Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."
  • Ezek 21:22 : 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 mounds, to build forts.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
  • 2 Kgs 18:17 : 17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. 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 Kgs 19:32 : 32 "Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, 'He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
  • 2 Kgs 24:11-12 : 11 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it; 12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
  • 2 Kgs 25:1-4 : 1 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. 2 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.

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  • Ezek 4:2-3
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    2and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

    3Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

  • Isa 29:1-2
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    1Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

    2then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.

  • Isa 29:6-7
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    6She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

    7The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
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    8He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.

    9He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Job 19:12
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    12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

  • Amos 3:11
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    11Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered."

  • Isa 29:4
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    4You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

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

  • Ezek 4:7-8
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    7You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

    8Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

  • Isa 25:12
    73%

    12He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Nah 3:14
    72%

    14Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

  • Mic 5:11
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    11I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds.

  • Jer 6:3-4
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    3Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place."

    4"Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

  • Jer 22:7
    72%

    7I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Zech 12:2
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    2"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

  • Jer 21:13
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    13Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

  • Zeph 1:16
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    16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

  • Deut 28:52
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    52They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • Jer 1:18-19
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    18For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

    19They will fight against you; but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you," says Yahweh, "to deliver you."

  • Ezek 38:9
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    9You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

  • Nah 2:1
    71%

    1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

  • Isa 31:4
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    4For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

  • Ezek 33:28
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    28I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

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

  • Lev 26:32-33
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    32I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

    33I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

  • Amos 6:14
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    14For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."

  • Jer 10:17
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    17Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.

  • Nah 2:13
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    13"Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

  • Jer 15:20
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    20I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 51:14
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    14Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

  • Ezek 35:3
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    3and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

  • Jer 6:27
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    27"I have made you a tester of metals [and] a fortress among my people; that you may know and try their way.

  • Mic 4:11
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    11Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."

  • Amos 1:14
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    14But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;

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

  • Jer 9:11
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    11I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

  • Isa 31:9
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    9His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • Lev 26:17
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    17I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

  • Jer 33:4
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    4For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defense] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • Ezek 32:9
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    9I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

  • Ezek 23:24
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    24They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet all around; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.