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Isaiah 27:10

What does Isaiah 27:10 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 27:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

For the fenced city <FI>is<Fi> alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.

Context

v.9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

v.10This passage

v.11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Luke 21:20

    But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.

  • Isaiah 7:25

    And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

  • Isaiah 17:2

    The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

  • Isaiah 5:9

    In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

  • Lamentations 5:18

    For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

  • Isaiah 64:10

    Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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