You will lie down, and no one will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.
Isaiah 17:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Her towns will be deserted forever; they will be places for flocks, which will lie down, and no one will make them afraid. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The cities of Aroer [east of the Jordan] are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. American Standard Version (1901) The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. Common English Bible The villages of Aroer are abandoned forever. They will be pastures for flocks, which will lie down undisturbed. Catholic Public Domain Version The cities in ruin will be left for the flocks, and they will take rest there, and there will be no one who may terrify them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks: and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid. |
You will lie down, and no one will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calves graze there; there they lie down and strip its branches.
Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture; fatted calves and kids shall feed among the ruins.
and will eat curds because of the abundance of milk that they give, for everyone left in the land shall eat curds and honey.
Stand by the road and watch, you inhabitant of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping; say, “What has happened?”
The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the air and for the animals of the earth, and no one will frighten them away.
I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
They shall bear their shame, and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they live securely in their land with no one to make them afraid,
but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, meadows for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon (including the town that is in the wadi itself) as far as Gilead, there was no citadel too high for us. The Lord our God gave everything to us.
As for the land that we took possession of at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the territory north of Aroer that is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, as well as half the hill country of Gilead with its towns,
Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;
Their territory was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is near Rabbah,