Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged.

Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem; he built up these fortified cities throughout Judah:

At that time the generals of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.

The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

“This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege?

The Lord deserves praise for he demonstrated his amazing faithfulness to me when I was besieged by enemies.

Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will bring me to Edom?

The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates,

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.

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.

(4:14) But now slash yourself, daughter surrounded by soldiers! We are besieged! With a scepter they strike Israel’s ruler on the side of his face.

In that day people will come to you from Assyria as far as Egypt, from Egypt as far as the Euphrates River, from the seacoasts and the mountains.

I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me and can know how I should answer when he counters my argument.

“I am about to make Jerusalem a cup that brings dizziness to all the surrounding nations; indeed, Judah will also be included when Jerusalem is besieged.

If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!