“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 encamp against you all around with a siege wall, and raise siegeworks against you, establishing that Jerusalem will be besieged, surrounded by military fortifications that will cut off escape and supply. The encampment and siegework imagery, drawn from the historical experience of siege warfare, creates concrete and specific detail. The all around suggest the totality of the encirclement and the impossibility of escape. The oracle announces the mechanism through which God's judgment will be executed: the military siege that will reduce the city to starvation and desperation. The specific military terminology connects the prophetic vision to historical reality.
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