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Isaiah 17:2

New English Translation

The cities of Aroer are abandoned. They will be used for herds, which will lie down there in peace.

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You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, and many will seek your favor.

For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

From the abundance of milk they produce, he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.

You who live in Aroer, stand by the road and watch. Question the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping. Ask them, ‘What has happened?’

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

They will bear their shame for all their unfaithful acts against me, when they live securely on their land with no one to make them afraid.

Each will sit under his own grapevine or under his own fig tree without any fear. The Lord who commands armies has decreed it.

The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us.

This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.

Their territory started at Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba,

Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half of Ammonite territory as far as Aroer near Rabbah.




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