Isaiah 29:3-5

Common English Bible

³ I will surround you like a wall,
    and I will lay a siege against you with assault towers,
    and I will raise up siegeworks against you.
⁴ You will be brought down;
    from the ground you will speak;
    from low in the dust your speech will come.
Your voice will be like a ghost’s from the earth;
    from the dust your words will whisper.
⁵ But your many enemies will be like fine dust,
    the terrible horde like passing chaff.
Suddenly, in an instant,