The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks—they will lie down and no one will frighten them.
Zephaniah 2:6 - Tree of Life Version The seacoast will become pastures, with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the seacoast shall be pastures, with [deserted] dwelling places and caves for shepherds and folds for flocks. American Standard Version (1901) And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks. Common English Bible The seacoast will become pastureland, with wells for shepherds and pens for the flocks. Catholic Public Domain Version And the coastline of the sea will be a resting place for shepherds and a fence line for cattle. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle: |
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks—they will lie down and no one will frighten them.
Then lambs will graze as if in their own pasture, and nomads will eat in the ruins of the wealthy.
As for all the hills that were tilled with the hoe—you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns. Instead it will be for grazing of oxen and roaming of sheep.
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Yet again will there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, a pasture of shepherds making their flocks lie down.
I will make Rabbah a grazing place for camels and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am Adonai.’”