Parallel Verses
Amplified
Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Holman Bible
for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,
International Standard Version
For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines,
A Conservative Version
They shall beat upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
American Standard Version
They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Bible in Basic English
Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;
Darby Translation
They shall smite on the breasts in lamentation for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.
Julia Smith Translation
Smiting upon the breasts for the fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.
King James 2000
Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Lexham Expanded Bible
mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over [the] fruitful vine,
Modern King James verseion
They shall mourn for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For as the infants weep when their mothers' teats are dried, so shall you weep for your fair fields and fruitful vineyards.
NET Bible
Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!
New Heart English Bible
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
The Emphasized Bible
Upon your breasts, continue smiting: For desirable fields, For fruitful vine.
Webster
They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
World English Bible
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Youngs Literal Translation
For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 32:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against The Carefree Women
11
Tremble, you women who are carefree;
Tremble with fear, you complacent ones!
Strip, undress and wear sackcloth on your waist [in grief],
Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,
For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars—
Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:7-8
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 11:11-12
But the land into which you are about to cross to possess, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail because of tears [mourns Jeremiah],
My spirit is deeply disturbed;
My heart is poured out on the earth [in grief]
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Jerusalem],
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.
Lamentations 4:3-4
Even the jackals offer the breast,
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become cruel
Like ostriches in the wilderness [that desert their young].
Ezekiel 20:6
on that day I swore to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, [plentiful and]
Ezekiel 20:15
I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, [a land of plenty]
Nahum 2:7
It is decreed:
Nineveh is stripped, and she is carried away,
And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,
Beating on their breasts [in sorrow].