Isaiah 17:2

In 11 translations

BSB

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

KJV

The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

WEB

The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

ASV

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

LSV

The cities of Aroer are forsaken, || They are for droves, and they have lain down, || And there is none troubling.

YLT

Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.

DBY

The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.

DRC

The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

GNV

The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for they shall lye there, and none shall make them afraide.

JPS

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

LXXE

abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.

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Original-language editions

WLC

עֲזֻב֖וֹת עָרֵ֣י עֲרֹעֵ֑ר לַעֲדָרִ֣ים תִּֽהְיֶ֔ינָה וְרָבְצ֖וּ וְאֵ֥ין מַחֲרִֽיד׃

LXX-Br

καταλελειμμένη εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, εἰς κοίτην ποιμνίων καὶ ἀνάπαυσιν, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ διώκων.

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• Ezekiel 25:5I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
• Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
• Zephaniah 2:6So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
• Jeremiah 7:33The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
• Micah 4:4And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
• Numbers 32:34And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
• Jeremiah 48:19Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’
• Deuteronomy 3:12So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.
• Isaiah 7:21On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
• Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
• Isaiah 7:23–25And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found. Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and…
• Joshua 13:16The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,

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