Isaiah 32:12

Verse

Berean Standard Bible

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Bible in Basic English

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

Free Bible Version

Beat your breasts in sadness over the loss of your lovely fields, your productive vines,

Geneva Bible 1599

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

King James (Authorized) Version

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

One Unity Resource Bible

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

Translation for Translators

Beat/Hit your breasts to show that you are grieving about what will happen in your fertile fields and to your fruitful grapevines,

Unlocked Literal Bible

You will wail for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines.

Noah Webster Bible

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

World English Bible

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Context

The Women of Jerusalem

¹¹Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists. ¹²Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, ¹³and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Summary

This verse in Isaiah describes a time of mourning and devastation that will come upon the land and the cities. It warns of desolation and abandonment, with the once bustling cities becoming deserted and in ruins. The passage serves as a call to repentance and a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God. It emphasizes the importance of seeking righteousness and living in accordance with God's will to avoid the judgment and destruction described.

Commentary

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

They shall lament - for the pleasant fields "Mourn ye for the pleasant field" - The Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read ספדו siphdu, mourn ye, imperative; twelve MSS., (five ancient), two editions, the Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Syriac, and Vulgate, all read שדה sadeh, a field; not שדי shedey, breasts.