“The cities of Aro‛ĕr are forsaken, they are for flocks which shall lie down, with no one to frighten.
Isaiah 27:10 - The Scriptures 2009 For the city of defence is lonely, a home forsaken and left like a wilderness – there the calf feeds, and there it lies down, and shall consume its branches. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, and there he lies down; he strips its branches and eats its twigs. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible The fortified city lies alone, a hut forsaken, abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and feed on its boughs. Catholic Public Domain Version For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the strong city shall be desolate: the beautiful city shall be forsaken and shall be left as a wilderness. There the calf shall feed: and there shall he lie down and shall consume its branches. |
“The cities of Aro‛ĕr are forsaken, they are for flocks which shall lie down, with no one to frighten.
In that day his strong cities become like a forsaken forest and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Yisra’ĕl. And it shall become a ruin.
The deserted city shall be broken down, every house shall be shut, no one enters.
For You shall make a city a heap, a walled city a ruin, a palace of foreigners to be a city no more – never to be rebuilt.
even when hail shall fall, felling the forest, and the city be brought low in humiliation.
Let the wilderness and the dry place be glad for them, and let the desert rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
“And you shall say in your heart, ‘Who has brought forth these for me, since I am bereaved and barren, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who reared them? See, I was left alone – from where did these come?’ ”
Your set-apart cities have become a wilderness, Tsiyon has become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a waste.
And it shall be in that day that a man keeps alive a young cow and two sheep.
And to all the hills which were tilled with the hoe, you do not go for fear of thornbushes and weeds; but it shall be for sending oxen to, and a place for sheep to roam.
“And the pastures of peace shall be cut down because of the burning displeasure of יהוה.
“Miḵayah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Ḥizqiyahu the sovereign of Yehuḏah, and he spoke to all the people of Yehuḏah, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “Tsiyon shall become a ploughed field, and Yerushalayim be heaps, and the mountain of the House like the bare hills of the forest.” ’
then I shall make this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
and the sovereign of Baḇel struck them and put them to death at Riḇlah in the land of Ḥamath. Thus Yehuḏah was exiled from its own land.
The ways to Tsiyon mourn For no one comes to the appointed times. All her gates are deserted, Her priests sigh, her maidens are afflicted, And she has bitterness.
Because of Mount Tsiyon which is laid waste; Foxes have gone roaming in it.
therefore, O mountains of Yisra’ĕl, hear the word of the Master יהוה! Thus said the Master יהוה to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, and to the deserted ruins, and to the cities that have been forsaken, which became a prey and a mocking to the rest of the nations all around;
Therefore, because of you, Tsiyon is ploughed like a field, and Yerushalayim becomes heaps, and the mountain of the House like a wooded height.