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Then I’ll encamp against you like David,[a]
    and I’ll lay siege to you with towers,
raise siege works against you,
and you will be brought down.
You will speak from the ground,
    and your speech will mumble from the dust.
Your voice will come ghostlike from the ground,
    and your speech will whisper from the dust.

“But the hordes of your enemies[b]
    will become like fine dust,
        and the hordes of tyrants like flying chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:3 So 4QIsak MTmss LXX; 1QIsaa MT read you on all sides
  2. Isaiah 29:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads foreigners; LXX reads the ungodly