Isaiah 29:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³And I will encamp against you round about,
    and will besiege you with towers
    and I will raise siegeworks 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^[a] shall be like small dust,
and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff.
And in an instant, suddenly,

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Isaiah 29:5 Cn: Heb strangers

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

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