KJV King James Version
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
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Isaiah 32:14
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For 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—
WEB World English Bible
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
ASV American Standard Version
For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses—a pasture of herds;
Surrounding context — Isaiah 32
11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon [your] loins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּֽי־H3588 · kiforאַרְמ֣וֹןH759 · ar.moncitadel: palaceנֻטָּ֔שׁH5203 · na.tashto leaveהֲמ֥וֹןH1995 · ha.moncrowdעִ֖ירH5892 · irexcitementעֻזָּ֑בH5800 · a.zavto leave: forsakeעֹ֣פֶלH6076 · o.phelhillוָבַ֜חַןH975 · ba.chanwatchtowerהָיָ֨הH1961 · ha.yahto beבְעַ֤דH1157 · be.adabout/through/forמְעָרוֹת֙H4631 · me.a.rahcaveעַד־H5704 · adtillעוֹלָ֔םH5769 · o.lamforever: enduringמְשׂ֥וֹשׂH4885 · ma.s.vo.srejoicingפְּרָאִ֖יםH6501 · pe.rewild donkeyמִרְעֵ֥הH4829 · mir.ehpastureעֲדָרִֽים׃H5739 · e.derflock
Cross-references
Isaiah 24:10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.Isaiah 24:12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.Isaiah 27:10Yet 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.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 21:24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.Isaiah 34:11-17But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.Isaiah 13:19-22And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.Psalm 104:11They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.Revelation 18:2-3And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.Luke 21:20And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.Isaiah 5:9In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.Isaiah 24:1-3Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.Isaiah 6:11Then 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,2 Kings 25:9And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man’s] house burnt he with fire.
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