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Isaiah 29:3 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you. "
Isaiah 29:3
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
1 Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
2 then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth.
3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
4 You 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.
5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
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Isaiah 29:1
"Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;"
Isaiah 29:2
"then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth."
Isaiah 29:4
"You 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."
Isaiah 29:5
"But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly."
Isaiah 29:6
"She will be visited by the LORD of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire."
Isaiah 29:7
"The 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."
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