Yeremia 32:24

32:24 Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city¹ in order to capture it. War,² starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians³ who are attacking it.⁴ Lord,⁵ you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.⁶

Yehezkiel 26:8

26:8 He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will build a siege wall against you, erect a siege ramp against you, and raise a great shield against you.

Habakuk 1:10

1:10 They mock kings

and laugh at rulers.

They laugh at every fortified city;

they build siege ramps⁷ and capture them.

Habakuk 1:2

1:2 How long, Lord, must I cry for help?

But you do not listen!

I call out to you, “Violence!”

But you do not intervene!⁸

1 Raja-raja 1:1

Adonijah Tries to Seize the Throne

1:1 King David was very old;⁹ even when they covered him with blankets,¹⁰ he could not get warm.

Yehezkiel 4:2

4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp¹¹ against it! Post soldiers outside it¹² and station battering rams around it.

¹tn Heb “Siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it.”

²tn Heb “sword.”

³tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

⁴tn Heb “And the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it because of the sword, starvation, and disease.” The verb “has been given” is one of those perfects that view the action as good as done (the perfect of certainty or prophetic perfect).

⁵tn The word “Lord” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation as a reminder that it is he who is being addressed.

⁶tn Heb “And what you said has happened and behold you see it.”

⁷tn Heb “they heap up dirt.” This is a reference to the piling up of earthen ramps in the process of laying siege to a fortified city.

⁸tn Or “deliver.”

⁹tn Heb “was old, coming into the days” (i.e., advancing in years).

¹⁰tn Or “garments.”

¹¹tn Or “a barricade.”

¹²tn Heb “set camps against it.”