The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Parallel translations
- WEB The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
- BSB The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
- NKJV The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid.
- NASB “The cities of Aroer are abandoned; They will be for herds to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them.
- NLT The towns of Aroer will be deserted. Flocks will graze in the streets and lie down undisturbed, with no one to chase them away.
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The cities of Aroer are abandoned, left to flocks that lie down undisturbed. Once-bustling towns become quiet pasture land.
Overview
The depopulated cities become grazing ground where animals rest in peace, a picture of desolation. Human pride and activity give way to silence and emptiness. The image vividly conveys how thoroughly judgment empties a land of its people.
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- Jer 7:33And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
- Ezek 25:5And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Zeph 2:6And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
- Deut 2:36From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
- Mic 4:4But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
- Num 32:34And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
- Jer 48:19O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
- Deut 3:12And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
- Isa 7:23–25And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
- Isa 7:21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
- Isa 5:17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
- Josh 13:16And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
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