SIEGE and DISTRESS — two nouns from two roots that sound alike, and the pair the curse repeats over a city eating its children. Matzor is the siege itself: Deuteronomy 20:19–20 (already on these pages) uses it for the siegeworks Israel may build; matzoq is the tightness inside. ⭐ In the siege and in the distress stands in four verses of the Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy 28:53, 55 and 57, and Jeremiah 19:9 (already on these pages), which quotes the first of them nearly whole. ⚠ The KJV reads ‘in the siege, and in the straitness’, the ASV ‘in the siege and in the distress’, the NWT 1984 ‘because of the tightness and stress’, the Douay ‘in the distress and extremity’; the RV 1909 «en el cerco y en el apuro», the RV60 «en el sitio y en el apuro», the TNM 1987 «la estrechez y tensión». → first discussed at Deut 28:53