You could lie down to rest,\par and no one would bother you.\par And many people would come to you\par for help.\par
Isaiah 17:2 - Easy To Read Version People will leave the cities of Aroer. {\cf2\super [175]} \par Flocks of sheep will wander freely in those empty towns;\par There will be no person to bother them.\par 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 could lie down to rest,\par and no one would bother you.\par And many people would come to you\par for help.\par
At that time, the great city will be empty—it will be like a desert. All the people will be gone—they will run away. That city will be like an open pasture. Young cattle will eat grass there. The cattle will eat leaves from the branches of the vines.
\{God will make the people of Israel leave their country; the land will be empty.\} Sheep will go any place they want. Lambs will walk on the land that rich people once owned.
“At that time, a person will be able to keep only one young cow and two sheep alive.
There will be only enough milk for that person to eat butter. Every person in the country will eat butter and honey. {\cf2\super [92]}
“You people living in Aroer,\par stand next to the road and watch.\par See the man running away.\par See that woman running away.\par Ask them what happened.\par
“‘I will make the city Rabbah a pasture for camels and the country of Ammon a sheep pen. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
The people will forget their shame and all the times they turned against me. They will live in safety on their own land. No one will make them afraid.
Each person will sit under his own grapevine and fig tree.\par No person will make \{them\} afraid!\par Why? Because the Lord All-Powerful\par said it would happen like that!\par
Your land by the sea will become empty fields for shepherds and their sheep.
We defeated the town of Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley and the other town in the middle of that valley. The Lord let us defeat all the cities between the Arnon Valley and Gilead. No city was too strong for us.
“So we took that land to be ours. I gave part of this land to the families groups of Reuben and Gad. I gave them the land from Aroer in the Arnon Valley to the hill country of Gilead with the cities in it. They got half of the hill country of Gilead.
It was the land from Aroer near the Arnon Ravine to the town of Medeba. This included the whole plain and the town in the middle of the ravine.
The land of Jazer and all the towns of Gilead. Moses also gave them half of the land of the Ammonite people as far as Aroer near Rabbah.