Isaiah 17:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.”
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“The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 17:2 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 32:34And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
- Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
- Deuteronomy 3:12So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.
- Joshua 13:16The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,
- Joshua 13:25The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;
- Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
- Isaiah 7:21On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
- Isaiah 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- Jeremiah 7:33The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
- Jeremiah 48:19Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’
- Ezekiel 25:5I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
- Micah 4:4And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
- Zephaniah 2:6So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
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