Isaiah 32:12

In 11 translations

BSB

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

KJV

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.pleasant…: Heb. fields of desire

WEB

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

ASV

They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

LSV

They are lamenting for breasts, || For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

YLT

For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

DBY

They shall smite on the breasts [in lamentation] for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.

DRC

Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard.

GNV

Men shall lament for the teates, euen for the pleasant fieldes, and for the fruitefull vine.

JPS

Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;

LXXE

and beat on your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine.

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WLC

עַל־שָׁדַ֖יִם סֹֽפְדִ֑ים עַל־שְׂדֵי־חֶ֕מֶד עַל־גֶּ֖פֶן פֹּרִיָּֽה׃

LXX-Br

καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν μαστῶν κόπτεσθε, ἀπὸ ἀγροῦ ἐπιθυμήματος, καὶ ἀμπέλου γεννήματος.

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• Lamentations 4:3–4Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness. The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little…
• Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
• Deuteronomy 11:11–12But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven. It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always…
• Deuteronomy 8:7–8For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive…
• Ezekiel 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
• Nahum 2:7It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
• Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

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