Isaiah 32:12

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,”

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BSBPD

“Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 32:12 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 8:7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
  2. Deuteronomy 11:11But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
  3. Isaiah 24:1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
  4. Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
  5. Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
  6. Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
  7. Ezekiel 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
  8. Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
  9. Joel 1:7It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
  10. Nahum 2:7It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

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