and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Isaiah 32:13 - Tree of Life Version for the land of my people, where thorns and briars come up, for all the joyful houses of the jubilant city. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briers–yes, for all the houses of joy in the joyous city. American Standard Version (1901) Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. Common English Bible for my people’s soil growing barbs and thorns, for all the joyous houses in the jubilant town. Catholic Public Domain Version Thorn and brier will rise up, over the soil of my people. How much more over all the houses of gladness, over the city of exultation? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up. How much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced! |
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
You were full of noise, a boisterous city, an exultant town? Your dead were not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
Is this your jubilant city? Whose antiquity is from long ago, whose feet have taken her to settle in far off lands?
Adonai-Tzva’ot has planned it, to defile the pride of all glory, to shame all the honored of earth.
In the streets is an outcry for wine; all joy becomes dark as evening; the mirth of the land is banished.
The fortified city is a lonely habitation, forlorn and forsaken like the desert. There the calf will graze, there lie down and consume its branches.
Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It will be a haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Ten acres of vineyard will yield six gallons, and an omer of seed will yield one ephah.
I will lay it waste: it will not be pruned or hoed, but briers and thorns will come up. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.
Instead of the thorn bush, a cypress will come up, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up, and it will be a memorial to Adonai, as an everlasting sign that will never be cut off.”
Then I said, “Adonai, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, houses are without people, and the land is utterly desolate.
In that day it will be that every place where there were 1,000 vines worth 1,000 silver shekels will become briers and thorns.
For thus says Adonai, the God of Israel: “Concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down against the siege ramps and against the sword,
Then the Chaldeans burned the king’s palace and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
The king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Then Judah was led away into exile from its land.
The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel will be destroyed. Thorns and thistles will come up on their altars. And they will say to the mountains: “Cover us!” And to the hills: “Fall on us!”
Look, even if they escape the desolation, Egypt will gather them up; Memphis will bury them. And their precious silver treasures? Weeds will possess them. Thorns will be in their tents.