Isaiah 32:19

What does Isaiah 32:19 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 32:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city shall be made very low.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Context

v.18And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

v.19This passage

v.20Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.

Cross references

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

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 30:30

    And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.

  • Matthew 7:25

    and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon the rock.

  • Isaiah 10:19

    And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.

  • Nahum 2:10

    She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.

  • Isaiah 25:4

    For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

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