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Isaiah 17:2

New International Reader's Version

The cities of Aroer will be deserted. They will be left to the flocks that lie down there. No one will make them afraid.

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You will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Many people will want you to help them.

Cities that have high walls around them will become empty. They will be settlements with no one in them. They will be like a desert. Calves will eat and lie down in them. They will strip bare the branches of their trees.

Then sheep will graze as if they were in their own grasslands. Lambs will eat grass among the destroyed buildings where rich people used to live.

At that time a person may only be able to keep alive one young cow and two goats.

But they will give plenty of milk to live on. In fact, everyone left in the land will only have milk curds and honey to eat.

Stand by the road and watch, you who live in Aroer. Ask the men who are running away. Ask the women who are escaping. Ask them, ‘What has happened?’

Then they will not be able to bury the bodies of other people there. So the bodies will become food for birds and wild animals. And no one will scare them away.

I will turn the city of Rabbah into grasslands for camels. Ammon will become a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

My people will forget the shameful things they have done. They will not remember all the ways they were unfaithful to me. They used to live in safety in their land. At that time no one made them afraid.

Everyone will have their own vine and fig tree. And no one will make them afraid. That’s what the Lord who rules over all has promised.

The land by the sea will become grasslands. It will have wells for shepherds and pens for flocks.

The people of Gad built up the cities of Dibon, Ataroth and Aroer.

Not a single town was too strong for us. That includes all the towns from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon River valley all the way to Gilead. It also includes the town in the valley. The Lord our God gave us all of them.

I divided up the land we took over at that time. I gave the tribes of Reuben and Gad the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon River valley. It includes half of the hill country of Gilead together with its towns.

Their territory starts at Aroer on the rim of the Arnon River valley. It includes the town in the middle of the valley. It includes all of the high plains near Medeba.

Their territory includes Jazer and all the towns of Gilead. It includes half of the country of Ammon all the way to Aroer, which was near Rabbah.




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