Isaiah 29:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³ I will be like an army camped against you on all sides.
    I will surround you with towers in order to attack you.
    I will build my ramps all around you and set up my ladders.
⁴ You will be brought down to the grave.
    You will speak from deep down inside the ground.
    Your words will be barely heard out of the dust.
Your voice will sound like the voice of a ghost
    coming from under the ground.
    Your words will sound like a whisper out of the dust.”