Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines New Living Translation Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms and your fruitful grapevines. English Standard Version Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, Berean Standard Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, King James Bible They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. New King James Version People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. New American Standard Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, NASB 1995 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, NASB 1977 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, Legacy Standard Bible Beat your breasts for the desirable fields, for the fruitful vine, Amplified Bible Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine, Christian Standard Bible Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines, Holman Christian Standard Bible Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines, American Standard Version They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And mourn upon your chests over the grass of the field and over the vine of its fruit Brenton Septuagint Translation and beat your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine. Contemporary English Version Slap your breasts in sorrow because of what happened to the fruitful fields and vineyards, Douay-Rheims Bible Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard. English Revised Version They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. GOD'S WORD® Translation Beat your breasts as you mourn for the fields, for the vines bearing grapes. Good News Translation Beat your breasts in grief because the fertile fields and the vineyards have been destroyed, International Standard Version For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines, JPS Tanakh 1917 Smiting upon the breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; Literal Standard Version They are lamenting for breasts, | For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine. Majority Standard Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, New American Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; NET Bible Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine! New Revised Standard Version Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, New Heart English Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's Literal Translation For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Women of Jerusalem…11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists. 12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, 13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.… Cross References Nahum 2:7 It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts. Isaiah 32:13 and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers--even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. Treasury of Scripture They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. lament Lamentations 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lamentations 4:3,4 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness… pleasant fields. Deuteronomy 8:7,8 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; … Deuteronomy 11:11,12 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: … Ezekiel 20:6,15 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: … Jump to Previous Beat Breasts Desire Fertile Fields Fruitful Lament Pleasant Pleasing Smite Smiting Sorrow Teats Vine Vines VineyardsJump to Next Beat Breasts Desire Fertile Fields Fruitful Lament Pleasant Pleasing Smite Smiting Sorrow Teats Vine Vines VineyardsIsaiah 32 1. The blessings of Christ's kingdom9. Desolation is foreshown 14. Restoration is promised to succeed (12) They shall lament for the teats . . .--Better, shall smite upon the breasts. The Hebrew nouns for "teats" and "fields," Shadaim and Sade, have an assonance which may be represented by the Latin ubera and ubertas. In the renewed, unabated luxury of the women of Jerusalem Isaiah sees the precursor of another time of desolation like that which he had foretold before in the reign of Ahaz (Isaiah 7:24). "Thorns and briers" are again to take the place of the fair gardens in the outskirts of Jerusalem during the invasion of Sennacherib, as they had once before in that of Rezin and Pekah. The "houses of joy" are manifestly what we should call the stately villas of the rich.Verse 12. - They shall lament for the teats, etc.; rather, they shall beat upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, etc. (so the LXX., the Vulgate, Jarchi, Gesenius, Ewald, Maurer, Knobel, Delitzsch, and Mr. Cheyne). Dr. Kay prefers the rendering of the Authorized Version, understanding by "the teats" such "dry breasts" as Hosea speaks of (Hosea 9:14). But nothing has been said in this place of any such affliction. For the pleasant fields, etc.; i.e. for their loss (see ver. 10). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Beatסֹֽפְדִ֑ים (sō·p̄ə·ḏîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 5594: To tear the hair and beat the breasts, to lament, to wail your breasts שָׁדַ֖יִם (šā·ḏa·yim) Noun - md Strong's 7699: The breast of a, woman, animal for עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the pleasant חֶ֕מֶד (ḥe·meḏ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2531: Desire, delight fields, שְׂדֵי־ (śə·ḏê-) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 7704: Field, land for the fruitful פֹּרִיָּֽה׃ (pō·rî·yāh) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 6509: To bear fruit, be fruitful vines, גֶּ֖פֶן (ge·p̄en) Noun - common singular Strong's 1612: A vine, the grape Links Isaiah 32:12 NIVIsaiah 32:12 NLT Isaiah 32:12 ESV Isaiah 32:12 NASB Isaiah 32:12 KJV Isaiah 32:12 BibleApps.com Isaiah 32:12 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 32:12 Chinese Bible Isaiah 32:12 French Bible Isaiah 32:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields (Isa Isi Is) |
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