Isaiah 29:3
Good News Translation
God will attack the city, surround it, and besiege it.

New Revised Standard Version
And like David I will encamp against you; I will besiege you with towers and raise siegeworks against you.

Contemporary English Version
I will surround you and prepare to attack from all sides.

New American Bible
I will encamp like David against you; I will circle you with outposts and set up siege works against you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.

2 Kings 18:17 And the king of the Assyrians sent Tharthan, and Rabsaris, and Rabsaces, from Lachis, to king Ezechias, with a strong army, to Jerusalem: and they went up and came to Jerusalem, and they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the way of the fuller's field.

2 Kings 19:32 Wherefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians: He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a trench about it.

2 Kings 24:11,12 And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his servants, to assault it. . . .

2 Kings 25:1-4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem: and they surrounded it: and raised works round about it. . . .

Ezekiel 21:22 On his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up the voice in howling, to set engines against the gates, to cast up a mount, to build forts.

Matthew 22:7 But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city.

Luke 19:43,44 For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side, . . .

Context
Woe to the City of David
2And I will make a trench about Ariel, and it shall be in sorrow and mourning, and it shall be to me as Ariel. 3And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.4Thou shalt be brought down, thou shall speak out of the earth, and thy speech shall be heard out of the ground: and thy voice shall be from the earth like that of the python, and out of the earth thy speech shall mutter.…
Cross References
Luke 19:43
For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,

Luke 19:44
And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

Deuteronomy 20:20
But if there be any trees that are not fruitful, but wild, and fit for other uses, cut them down, and make engines, until thou take the city, which fighteth against thee.

Isaiah 29:2
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