Isaiah 17:2
What does Isaiah 17:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 17:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.
Context
v.1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
v.2This passage
v.3And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 13:16
And their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
- Zephaniah 2:6
And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
- Deuteronomy 3:12
And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
- Isaiah 7:23
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.
- Jeremiah 7:33
And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
- Micah 4:4
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it.
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