Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; now they are for flocks; they shall lie down, and no one terrifies them.
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.
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 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 against Damascus: Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a heap of ruins. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; now they are for flocks; they shall lie down, and no one terrifies them. 3 And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the rest of Syria. They shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Cross References
Ezekiel 25:5
And I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the Ammonites a crouching-place for flocks. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.
Numbers 32:34
And the sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, by the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. Jehovah our God delivered all to us.
Jeremiah 7:33
And the 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 each one under his vine and under his fig tree; and there shall be no trembling; for the mouth of Jehovah of Hosts has spoken,
Zephaniah 2:6
And the sea coast will be pastures, meadows of shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Deuteronomy 3:12
And this is the land which we possessed at that time, from Aroer by the river Arnon, and half of Mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the men of Reuben and of Gad.
Joshua 13:16
And their coast was from Aroer on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba.
Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed in their way, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah 7:21
And it shall be, in that day a man shall keep alive a young cow and two sheep;
Isaiah 7:23-25
And it shall be, in that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Jeremiah 48:19
O dweller of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, What is happening?