King James Version
Isaiah 29:3 in the King James Version says “And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against t...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 29 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 · KJV
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. Woe: or, O Ariel, that is, the lion of God the city: or, of the city kill: Heb. cut off the heads of
Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
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. whisper: Heb. peep, or, chirp
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
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“And I will camp”
H2583properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; generally to encamp (for abode or s
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and will lay siege”
H6696to cramp, i.e., confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and I will raise”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“forts”
H4694a hemming in, i.e., (objectively) a mound (of siege), or (subjectively) a rampart (of protection), (abstractly) fortification
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