Isaiah 5:17

In 11 translations

BSB

Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.LXX lambs

KJV

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

WEB

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

ASV

Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

LSV

And lambs have fed according to their leading, || And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.

YLT

And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.

DBY

And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

DRC

And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.

GNV

Then shall the lambes feede after their maner, and the strangers shall eate the desolate places of the fat.

JPS

Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

LXXE

And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְרָע֥וּ כְבָשִׂ֖ים כְּדָבְרָ֑ם וְחָרְב֥וֹת מֵחִ֖ים גָּרִ֥ים יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ βοσκηθήσονται οἱ διηρπασμένοι ὡς ταῦροι, καὶ τὰς ἐρήμους τῶν ἀπειλημμένων ἄρνες φάγονται.

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• Zephaniah 2:6So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
• Isaiah 7:25For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
• Zephaniah 2:14Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will…
• Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
• Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
• Psalms 119:70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
• Lamentations 5:2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
• Isaiah 40:11He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
• Isaiah 32:14For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
• Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
• Isaiah 10:16Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
• Micah 2:12I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a noisy throng.
• Psalms 17:14from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
• Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
• Isaiah 65:10Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.
• Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

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