Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
New American Standard Bible
They will be for
And there will be
King James Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Holman Bible
they will be places for flocks.
They will lie down without fear.
International Standard Version
The cities of Oraru will be deserted they will be devoted to herds that will lay at rest, and terrorism will be no more.
A Conservative Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They shall be for flocks, which shall lay down, and none shall make them afraid.
Amplified
“The cities of Aroer [east of the Jordan] are deserted;
They will be [only a refuge] for flocks to lie down in,
And there will be no one to make them afraid.
Bible in Basic English
Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
The cities of Aroer were forsaken : they shall be for flocks, and they lay down, and none terrifying.
King James 2000
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The cities of Aroer will be deserted; they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and {no one will frighten} [them].
Modern King James verseion
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; now they are for flocks; they shall lie down, and no one terrifies them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The cities of Aroer shall be waste: the cattle shall lie there, and no man shall fraye them away.
NET Bible
The cities of Aroer are abandoned. They will be used for herds, which will lie down there in peace.
New Heart English Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
The Emphasized Bible
Forsaken, are the desolate cities, - For flocks, shall they serve, Which shall lie down and have none to make them afraid.
Webster
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
World English Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Youngs Literal Translation
Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 17:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Of Judgment On Damascus
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Cross References
Ezekiel 25:5
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
Numbers 32:34
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Jehovah our God delivered up all before us:
Jeremiah 7:33
And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
Micah 4:4
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it.
Zephaniah 2:6
And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
Deuteronomy 3:12
And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
Joshua 13:16
And their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
Isaiah 7:21
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;
Isaiah 7:23-25
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.
Jeremiah 48:19
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth; say, What hath been done?