Isaiah 29:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³And like David^[a] I will encamp against you;
    I will besiege you with towers
    and raise siege-works against you.
⁴Then deep from the earth you shall speak,
    from low in the dust your words shall come;
your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost,
    and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

⁵But the multitude of your foes^[b] shall be like fine dust,
and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff.
And in an instant, suddenly,

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Isaiah 29:3 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 29:5 Cn: Heb strangers

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)

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