Isaiah 29:3
29:3 I will lay siege to you on all sides;
I will besiege you with troops;
I will raise siege works against you.
Jeremiah 32:24
32:24 Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city
in order to capture it. War,
starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians
who are attacking it.
Lord,
you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.
Ezekiel 4:1-8
Ominous Object Lessons
4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it – Jerusalem.
4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it.
4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
4:4 “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.
4:5 I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days for you – 390 days. So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
4:6 “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days – I have assigned one day for each year.
4:7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.
4:8 Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.
Ezekiel 21:22-24
21:22 Into his right hand
comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal
for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry,
to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.
21:23 But those in Jerusalem
will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths,
but the king of Babylon
will accuse them of violations
in order to seize them.
21:24 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have brought up your own guilt by uncovering your transgressions and revealing your sins through all your actions, for this reason you will be taken by force.
Luke 19:43-44
19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build
an embankment
against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.
19:44 They will demolish you
– you and your children within your walls
– and they will not leave within you one stone
on top of another,
because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”