Isaiah 32:12 “Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,”

Isaiah 32:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Men shall lament for the teates, euen for the pleasant fieldes, and for the fruitefull vine.

Darby Translation

They shall smite on the breasts [in lamentation] for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

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Cross references

“lament”

Lamentations 2:11 Lamentations 4:3 Lamentations 4:4

Lamentations 2:11 · BSB

My 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.

Lamentations 4:3 · BSB

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:4 · BSB

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

“pleasant fields”

Ezekiel 20:6 Ezekiel 20:15 Deuteronomy 8:7 Deuteronomy 8:8 Deuteronomy 11:11 Deuteronomy 11:12

Ezekiel 20:6 · BSB

On 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.

Ezekiel 20:15 · BSB

Moreover, 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—

Deuteronomy 8:7 · BSB

For 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;

Deuteronomy 8:8 · BSB

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

Deuteronomy 11:11 · BSB

But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.

Deuteronomy 11:12 · BSB

It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.

Also

Nahum 2:7

Nahum 2:7 · BSB

It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

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

In context

11Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

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