H1219–בָּצַר–ba.tsar

And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

הַבְּצֻר֖וֹת (בְּצֻר֖וֹת) be.tzu.Rot “fortified”

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃ be.tzu.Rot “fortified”

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.

כְּבוֹצֵ֖ר (בוֹצֵ֖ר) vo.Tzer “a grape gatherer”

And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

בְּצוּרָ֔ה be.tzu.Rah “fortified”

Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

וּבְצֻר֖וֹת (בְצֻר֖וֹת) ve.tzu.Rot “incomprehensible [things]”

If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?

בֹּֽצְרִים֙ bo.tze.Rim “grape gatherers”

Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.

תְבַצֵּ֖ר te.va.Tzer “it will fortify”

Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to come to Rabbah in the land of the children of Ammon, and to Judah and to Jerusalem in the middle of her.

בְּצוּרָֽה׃ be.tzu.Rah “fortified”

And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.

בְּצוּר֥וֹת be.tzu.Rot “[are] fortified”

For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

בְּצֻר֑וֹת be.tzu.Rot “fortified”

If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

בֹּֽצְרִים֙ bo.tze.Rim “grape gatherers”

A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

הַבְּצֻר֔וֹת (בְּצֻר֔וֹת) be.tzu.Rot “fortified”