Parallel Verses
King James 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
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.
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 The fortress also 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 the LORD of hosts.
Cross References
Ezekiel 25:5
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Numbers 32:34
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
Jeremiah 7:33
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray 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 the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
Zephaniah 2:6
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Deuteronomy 3:12
And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Joshua 13:16
And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah 7:21
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
Isaiah 7:23-25
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Jeremiah 48:19
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?