Isaiah 29 · Verse 3

Isaiah 29:3

And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
Isaiah 29:3, King James Version

Isaiah 29:3 in other translations

BSBI will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.
WEBI will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
ASVAnd I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.
YLTAnd I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee--a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.
DARBYAnd I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with watch-posts, and I will raise forts against thee.
BBEAnd I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.
WebsterAnd I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

What does Isaiah 29:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. I--Jehovah, acting through the Assyrian, &c., His instruments (Is 10:5). mount--an artificial mound formed to out-top high walls (Is 37:33); else a station, namely, of warriors, for the siege. round about--not fully realized under Sennacherib, but in the Roman siege (Lu 19:43; 21:20). forts--siege-towers (De 20:20).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 And I will camp against thee round about "And I will encamp against thee like David" - For כדור caddur, some kind of military engine, כדוד kedavid, like David, is the reading of the Septuagint, two MSS. of Kennicott's, if not two more: but though Bishop Lowth adopts this reading, I think it harsh and unnecessary. Forts "Towers" - For מצרת metsuroth, read מצדות metsudoth: so the Septuagint and five MSS. of Dr. Kennicott's, one of them ancient, and four of De Rossi's.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 29:1-8

Judgements on Jerusalem and on its enemies. (Is. 29:1-8) The senselessness and hypocrisy of the Jews. (Is. 29:9-16) The conversion of the Gentiles, and future blessings for the Jews. (Is. 29:17-24) Verses 1-8 Ariel may signify the altar of burnt-offerings. Let Jerusalem know that outward religious services will not make men free from judgements. Hypocrites never can please God, nor make their peace with him. God had…

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Isaiah 29:3 in the original Hebrew

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וְחָנִ֥יתִיve.cha.Ni.tiand I will encampH2583
כַדּ֖וּרkha.Durlike <the> circleH1754
עָלָ֑יִךְ'a.La.yikhon youH5921
וְצַרְתִּ֤יve.tzar.Tiand I will lay siegeH6696
עָלַ֙יִךְ֙'a.La.yikhon youH5921
מֻצָּ֔בmu.Tzavsiege-worksH4674
וַהֲקִֽימֹתִ֥יva.ha.ki.mo.Tiand I will raiseH6965
עָלַ֖יִךְ'a.La.yikhon youH5921
מְצֻרֹֽת\׃me.tzu.RotfortificationsH4694

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Cross references for Isaiah 29:3

  • Luke 19:43-44

    For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

  • Ezekiel 21:22

    At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

  • 2 Kings 24:11-12

    And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. 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 Kings 18:17

    And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against 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.

  • Matthew 22:7

    But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

  • 2 Kings 25:1-4

    And it came to pass 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 host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

  • 2 Kings 19:32

    Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ki 18:17; 19:32; 24:11,12; 25:1-4; Eze 21:22; Mt 22:7; Lu 19:43,44

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Context

  • Isaiah 29:2

    Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

  • Isaiah 29:3

    And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

  • Isaiah 29:4

    And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

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Isaiah 29:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Porque asentaré campo contra ti en derredor, y te combatiré con ingenios, y levantaré contra ti baluartes.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et je camperai comme un cercle contre toi, et je t’assiégerai au moyen de postes armés, et j’élèverai contre toi des forts;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und ich werde dich im Kreise umlagern, und dich mit Heeresaufstellung einschließen, und Belagerungswerke wider dich aufrichten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et circumdabo quasi sphæram in circuitu tuo, et jaciam contra te aggerem, et munimenta ponam in obsidionem tuam.