He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
Isaiah 33:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The land mourns and withers; Lebanon is ashamed and wilted. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The land mourns and languishes, Lebanon is confounded and [its luxuriant verdure] withers away; Sharon [a fertile pasture region south of Mount Carmel] is like a desert, and Bashan [a broad, fertile plateau east of the Jordan River] and [Mount] Carmel shake off their leaves. American Standard Version (1901) The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. Common English Bible The land mourned; it wasted away; Lebanon was ashamed; it withered. Sharon became like the desert, and Bashan and Carmel were dropping their leaves. Catholic Public Domain Version The earth has mourned and languished. Lebanon has been confounded and desecrated. And Sharon has become like a desert. And Bashan and Carmel have been struck together. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The land hath mourned and languished: Libanus is confounded and become foul. And Saron is become as a desert: and Basan and Carmel are shaken. |
He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
He is clearing the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.
Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon rejoice over you: ‘Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter has come against us.’
against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,
Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:
I will oppress Ariel, and there will be mourning and crying, and she will be to me like an Ariel.
Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.
It will blossom abundantly and will also rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendour of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the Lord, the splendour of our God.
You have mocked the Lord through your servants. You have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its distant heights, its densest forest.
Sharon will be a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me.
I will return Israel to his grazing land, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan; he will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.
For this reason the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it languishes, along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea disappear.
He said: The Lord roars from Zion and makes his voice heard from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, , and the summit of Carmel withers.
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that is your possession. They live alone in a woodland surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in ancient times.
He rebukes the sea and dries it up, and he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; even the flower of Lebanon withers.
We captured all his cities at that time. There wasn’t a city that we didn’t take from them: sixty cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.