Isaiah 17:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 25:5 : 5 And I have given Rabbah for a habitation of camels, And the sons of Ammon for the crouching of a flock, And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah.
  • Mic 4:4 : 4 And they have sat each under his vine, And under his fig-tree, And there is none troubling, For the mouth of Jehovah of Hosts hath spoken.
  • Zeph 2:6 : 6 And the sea-coast hath been habitations, Cottages `for' shepherds, and folds `for' a flock.
  • Jer 7:33 : 33 And the carcase of this people hath been for food To a fowl of the heavens, and to a beast of the earth, And there is none troubling.
  • Num 32:34 : 34 And the sons of Gad build Dihon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
  • Deut 2:36 : 36 `From Aroer, which `is' by the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which `is' by the brook, even unto Gilead there hath not been a city which `is' too high for us; the whole hath Jehovah our God given before us.
  • Deut 3:12 : 12 `And this land we have possessed, at that time; from Aroer, which `is' by the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I have given to the Reubenite, and to the Gadite;
  • Josh 13:16 : 16 and the border is to them from Aroer, which `is' on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which `is' in the midst of the brook, and all the plain by Medeba,
  • Isa 5:17 : 17 And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
  • Isa 7:21 : 21 And it hath come to pass, in that day, A man keepeth alive a heifer of the herd, And two of the flock,
  • Isa 7:23-25 : 23 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns. 24 With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, Because all the land is brier and thorn. 25 And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'
  • Jer 48:19 : 19 On the way stand, and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer, Ask the fugitive and escaped, Say, What hath happened?

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