Devine Scripture

Isaiah 32:14

Isaiah chapter 32 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Context

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

v.14This passage

v.15until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.

Cross references

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

  • 2 Kings 25:9

    And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

  • Isaiah 24:1

    Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • Isaiah 27:10

    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.

  • Luke 21:24

    And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

  • Isaiah 25:2

    For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

  • Isaiah 5:9

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