You will lie down with no one to frighten you, and many will seek your favour.
Isaiah 17:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be places for flocks. They will lie down without fear. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. Common English Bible The villages of Aroer are abandoned forever. They will be pastures for flocks, which will lie down undisturbed. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks: and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid. |
You will lie down with no one to frighten you, and many will seek your favour.
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.
Lambs will graze as if in their own pastures, and resident foreigners will eat among the ruins of the rich.
and from the abundant milk they give he will eat curds, for every survivor in the land will eat curds and honey.
Stand by the road and watch, resident of Aroer! Ask him who is fleeing or her who is escaping, ‘What happened? ’
The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one 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 feel remorse for , their disgrace and all the unfaithfulness they committed against me, when they live securely in their land with no one to frighten them.
But each person will sit under his grapevine and under his fig tree with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the Lord of Armies has spoken.
The seacoast will become pasturelands with caves for shepherds and pens for sheep.
There was no city that was inaccessible to , us, from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead. The Lord our God gave everything to us.
‘At that time we took possession of this land. I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities.
this as their territory: From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau as far as Medeba,
this as their territory: Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites to Aroer, near Rabbah;