Isaiah 17:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Her cities will be deserted for ever; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Common English Bible

² The villages of Aroer are abandoned forever. They will be pastures for flocks, which will lie down undisturbed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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

² The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks: and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

Isaiah 17:2 Cross References

Job 11:19

You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will entreat your favor.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, there he lies down, and strips its branches.

Isaiah 5:17

Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.

Isaiah 7:21

In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;

Isaiah 7:22

and because of the abundance of milk which they give, he will eat curds; for every one that is left in the land will eat curds and honey.

Jeremiah 48:19

Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, ‘What has happened?’

Jeremiah 7:33

And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and none will frighten them away.

Ezekiel 25:5

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the cities of the Ammonites a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:26

They shall forget their shame, and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,

Micah 4:4

but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Zephaniah 2:6

And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Numbers 32:34

And the sons of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; the Lord our God gave all into our hands.

Deuteronomy 3:12

“When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities;

Joshua 13:16

So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;

Joshua 13:25

Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,