Isaiah 32:12

Isaiah chapter 32 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Context

v.11Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

v.12This passage

v.13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Cross references

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

  • Ezekiel 20:15

    Moreover also I sware unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

  • Lamentations 2:11

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Lamentations 4:3

    Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

  • Ezekiel 20:6

    in that day I sware unto them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

  • Nahum 2:7

    And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

  • Deuteronomy 8:7

    For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;