Isaiah 17:2New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten [them].
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Forsaken, are the desolate cities,—For flocks, shall they serve, Which shall lie down, and have none, to make them afraid.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for they shall lye there, and none shall make them afraide.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall bee for flockes, which shall lye downe, and none shall make [them] afraid.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The cities of Adoer shall be forsaken; they shall be for flocks which shall lie down in them, and none shall harm them.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— abandoned for ever, to [be] a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid. |
The cities
5892 {5892} Primeעִיר`iyr{eer}
From H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post).
of
`Árö`ër
עֲרֹעֵר
6177 {6177} Primeעַרוֹעֵר`Arow`er{ar-o-ayr'}
The same as H6176; nudity of situation; Aroer, the name of three places in or near Palestine.
[ are] forsaken:
5800 {5800} Primeעָזַב`azab{aw-zab'}
A primitive root; to loosen, that is, relinquish, permit, etc.
z8803 <8803> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Passive (See H8815) Count - 1415
they shall be
x1961 (1961) Complementהָיָהhayah{haw-yaw'}
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary).
for flocks,
5739 {5739} Primeעֵדֶר`eder{ay'-der}
From H5737; an arrangement, that is, muster (of animals).
which shall lie down,
7257 {7257} Primeרָבַץrabats{raw-bats'}
A primitive root; to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); by implication to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
and none
x369 (0369) Complementאַיִן'ayin{ah'-yin}
As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.
shall make [ them] afraid.
2729 {2729} Primeחָרַדcharad{khaw-rad'}
A primitive root; to shudder with terror; hence to fear; also to hasten (with anxiety).
z8688 <8688> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 857 |
Isaiah 17:2
_ _ cities of Aroer — that is, the cities round Aroer, and under its jurisdiction [Gesenius]. So “cities with their villages” (Joshua 15:44); “Heshbon and all her cities” (Joshua 13:17). Aroer was near Rabbahammon, at the river of Gad, an arm of the Jabbok (2 Samuel 24:5), founded by the Gadites (Numbers 32:34).
_ _ for flocks — (Isaiah 5:17). |
Isaiah 17:2
Aroer — Of that part of Syria, called Aroer, from a great city of that name. These cities were possessed by the Reubenites and Gadites, whom Tiglath — pilneser carried into captivity, 1 Chronicles 5:26. These he mentions here, as he doth Ephraim in the next verse, because they were confederate with Syria against Judah. Afraid — Because the land shall be desolate, and destitute of men who might disturb them. |
Isaiah 17:2
The cities of (c) Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.
(c) It was a country of Syria by the river Arnon. |
- Aroer:
Numbers 32:34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Deuteronomy 2:36 From 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:
Deuteronomy 3:12 And 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.
Joshua 13:16 And 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;
Jeremiah 48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is done?
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- they shall:
Isaiah 5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah 7:23-25 And 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. ... And [on] all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Ezekiel 25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Zephaniah 2:6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
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- none:
Jeremiah 7:33 And 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.
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