Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
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.
American Standard Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie 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.
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 word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place. 2 Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear. 3 The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.
Cross References
Ezekiel 25:5
And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Numbers 32:34
And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer;
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:
Jeremiah 7:33
And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.
Micah 4:4
But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.
Zephaniah 2:6
And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.
Deuteronomy 3:12
And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.
Joshua 13:16
Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land by Medeba;
Isaiah 5:17
Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
Isaiah 7:21
And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;
Isaiah 7:23-25
And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.
Jeremiah 48:19
O daughter of Aroer, take your station by the way, on the watch: questioning him who is in flight, and her who has got away safe, say, What has been done?