KJV King James Version
Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Isaiah 27:10
Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
WEB World English Bible
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
ASV American Standard Version
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For the fenced city is alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 27
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforעִ֤ירH5892 · irexcitementבְּצוּרָה֙H1219 · ba.tsarto gather/restrain/fortifyבָּדָ֔דH910 · ba.dadisolationנָוֶ֕הH5116 · na.vehpastureמְשֻׁלָּ֥חH7971 · sha.lachto send: departוְנֶעֱזָ֖בH5800 · a.zavto leave: forsakeכַּמִּדְבָּ֑רH4057 · mid.barmouthשָׁ֣םH8033 · shamthereיִרְעֶ֥הH7462 · bet-e.qed ha.ro.imHouse of Shepherdsעֵ֛גֶלH5695 · e.gelcalfוְשָׁ֥םH8033 · shamthereיִרְבָּ֖ץH7257 · ra.vatsto stretchוְכִלָּ֥הH3615 · ka.lahto end: finishסְעִפֶֽיהָ׃H5585 · sa.iphcleft
Cross-references
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.Isaiah 17:9In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.Micah 3:12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.Isaiah 32:13-14Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:Jeremiah 26:6Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.Luke 21:20-24And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.Lamentations 5:18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.Isaiah 5:9-10In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.Ezekiel 36:4Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that [are] round about;Lamentations 2:5-9The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.Isaiah 25:2For thou hast made of a city an heap; [of] a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.Luke 19:43-44For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,Isaiah 7:25And [on] all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.Isaiah 6:11-12Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
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