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Isaiah 32:12

10 In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

11 Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

13 and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

14 For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

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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
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
KJV
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
WEB
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
ASV
They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
DARBY
They shall smite on the breasts [in lamentation] for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.
BLB
For breasts they are lamenting over the fields of delight, over the fruitful vine,
ÅB
De slår seg for brystet og klager over de fagre marker, over det fruktbare vintre.
OTB
Sørg for de behagelige markene, for de fruktbare vinrankene,
B1930
De slår sig for brystet og klager over de fagre marker, over det fruktbare vintre.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 8:7–8

    For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

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  • Deuteronomy 11:11–12

    But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

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  • Ezekiel 20:15

    Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

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  • Lamentations 2:11

    My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

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  • Lamentations 4:3–4

    Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

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  • Nahum 2:7

    It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

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  • Ezekiel 20:6

    On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

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