Isaiah 27:10

8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

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.

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

12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
KJV
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.
WEB
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
ASV
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.
DARBY
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.
BLB
For the fortified city [is] alone, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there he will lie down and consume her branches.
ÅB
For den faste by ligger forlatt, en folketom bolig, øde som ørkenen. Kalver beiter der; der hviler de og fortærer dens kvister;
OTB
Den befestede byen står isolert, en forlatt gård, forlatt som ødemarken; der beiter kalvene, der legger de seg ned og stripper grenene nakne.
B1930
For den faste by ligger forlatt, en folketom bolig, øde som ørkenen. Kalver beiter der; der hviler de og fortærer dens kvister;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 17:2

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

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  • Isaiah 32:13–14

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

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  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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  • Jeremiah 26:6

    Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

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  • Isaiah 17:9

    In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

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  • Jeremiah 26:18

    Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

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  • Isaiah 25:2

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

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  • Lamentations 1:4

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

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