Isaiah 29:3
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 I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
The utterance was given through Isaiah, whose name means Jehovah's salvation, laboring at Jerusalem from the year King Uzziah died through the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, himself married and the father of two sons. It stands within the prophecies concerning Israel in chapters 28 to 33, in the division of chapters 28 to 30, with verses 3 to 11 of chapter 29 belonging together.
It is part of a prophecy against Jerusalem, poetically called Ariel, meaning the lion of God. It declares that God would turn against backslidden Jerusalem even while she continued her yearly feasts and religious ceremonies, camping against her round about, laying siege with a mount, raising forts, permitting an enemy to besiege her, bringing down her walls, and bringing great trouble that would lay her so low her voice would seem to whisper from the dust. It reflects the deplorable moral and political condition of Judah when Hezekiah became king and began his work of reform. The vision is not restricted to Isaiah's own nation and time but regards all nations and all times, with Israel portrayed as a type of conditions in the Christian age. In that wider scope it clearly announces Immanuel, God with us, His beneficent life, His atoning death, and His triumphant and everlasting kingdom.