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Isaiah 32:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places for ever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,

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For the fortified city will be desolate, pastures deserted and abandoned like a wilderness. Calves will graze there, and there they will spread out and strip its branches.


For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city into ruins; the fortress of barbarians  is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.


Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins.


The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.


They will be killed by the sword   , and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles   , until the times of the Gentiles   are fulfilled.


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


Then I said, ‘Until when, Lord? ’  And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,


I heard the Lord of Armies say: Indeed, many houses  will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.


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


And on that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briars.


The noisy city, the jubilant town, is filled with celebration. Your dead did not die by the sword; they were not killed in battle.


Rise up, let’s attack by night. Let’s destroy her fortresses.’


Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights panting for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there are no green plants.


For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the houses of this city and the palaces of Judah’s kings, the ones torn down for defence against the assault ramps and the sword:


The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.


Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her as she was on the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and like a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.


The coastland will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; they will find pasture there. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the Lord their God will return to them and restore their fortunes.


This is the jubilant   city that lives in security, that says to herself: I exist, and there is no one else. What a desolation she has become, a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone who passes by her scoffs  and shakes his fist.


After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon  in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate;  he brought it round Ophel,  and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.


and the temple servants  living on Ophel  made repairs opposite the Water Gate  towards the east and the tower that juts out.


Then her gates  will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.


Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.





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