Isaiah 17:2 “The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, whi…”

Isaiah 17:2

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

Other translations

King James Version

The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

World English Bible

The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

American Standard Version

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Geneva Bible 1599

The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for they shall lye there, and none shall make them afraide.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.

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Cross references

“Aroer”

Deuteronomy 2:36 Numbers 32:34 Deuteronomy 3:12 Jeremiah 48:19 Joshua 13:16

Deuteronomy 2:36 · BSB

From 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.

Numbers 32:34 · BSB

And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Deuteronomy 3:12 · BSB

So 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.

Jeremiah 48:19 · BSB

Stand by the road and watch, O dweller of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, ‘What has happened?’

Joshua 13:16 · BSB

The 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,

“they shall”

Ezekiel 25:5 Zephaniah 2:6 Isaiah 5:17 Isaiah 7:23–25

Ezekiel 25:5 · BSB

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

Zephaniah 2:6 · BSB

So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

Isaiah 5:17 · BSB

Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.

Isaiah 7:23–25 · BSB

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

“none”

Jeremiah 7:33

Jeremiah 7:33 · BSB

The 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.

Also

Micah 4:4 Isaiah 7:21

Micah 4:4 · BSB

And 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.

Isaiah 7:21 · BSB

On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Read Isaiah 17