Isaiah 32:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture for flocks;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ For the palace shall be forsaken, the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watchtower shall become dens [for wild animals] endlessly, a joy for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ 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;

Common English Bible

¹⁴ The palace will be deserted, the crowded city abandoned. Stronghold and watchtower will become empty fields forever, suited for the pleasure of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks—

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ For the house has been forsaken. The multitude of the city has been abandoned. A darkness and a covering have been placed over its dens, even unto eternity. It will be the gladness of wild donkeys and the pasture of flocks,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ For the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever: a joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks,

Isaiah 32:14 Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

2 Chronicles 33:14

Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, reaching the entrance at the Fish Gate; he carried it around Ophel and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

Nehemiah 3:26

and the temple servants living on Ophel made repairs up to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.

Psalm 104:11

giving drink to every wild animal; the wild asses quench their thirst.

Isaiah 22:2

city full of shouting, tumultuous city, panic-stricken town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead in battle.

Isaiah 24:10

The city of chaos is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one can enter.

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.

Isaiah 25:2

For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of foreigners is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 27:10

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.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;

Isaiah 7:23

On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 14:6

The wild asses stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no herbage.

Jeremiah 33:4

For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that were torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and before the sword:

Jeremiah 52:27

And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile out of its land.

Jeremiah 6:5

“Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!”

Hosea 2:3

or I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born and make her like a wilderness and turn her into a parched land and kill her with thirst.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.

Zephaniah 2:7

The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall pasture, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.

Luke 21:20

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.

Luke 21:24

they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.