Isaiah 32:14
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
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;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- 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—
- KJV
- 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;
- WEB
- For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
- ASV
- 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;
- DARBY
- For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
- BLB
- For the palace will be forsaken, the clamor of the city will be forsaken, [and] the citadel and watchtower will become as dens even to forever—the joy of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks—
- ÅB
- For palasset er forlatt, svermen i byen er borte; haug[^1] og vakttårn er blitt til huler for evige tider, til fryd for villesler, til beite for buskap -
- OTB
- For palasset vil bli forlatt, den travle byen øde; høyde og vakttårn vil bli huler for alltid, en glede for ville esler, en beitemark for flokker,
- B1930
- For palasset er forlatt, svermen i byen er borte; haug og vakttårn er blitt til huler for evige tider, til fryd for villesler, til beite for buskap - / < Ofel-haugen i Jerusalem; 2KR 27, 3. NEH 3, 26 fg.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Read in contextIsaiah 27:10
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.
Read in contextIsaiah 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:10
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Read in contextPsalms 104:11
They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
Read in contextLuke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Read in contextIsaiah 34:11–17
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:1–3
Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
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