Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines New Living Translation Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms and your fruitful grapevines. English Standard Version Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, Berean Standard Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, King James Bible They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. New King James Version People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. New American Standard Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, NASB 1995 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, NASB 1977 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, Legacy Standard Bible Beat your breasts for the desirable fields, for the fruitful vine, Amplified Bible Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine, Christian Standard Bible Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines, Holman Christian Standard Bible Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines, American Standard Version They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Contemporary English Version Slap your breasts in sorrow because of what happened to the fruitful fields and vineyards, English Revised Version They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. GOD'S WORD® Translation Beat your breasts as you mourn for the fields, for the vines bearing grapes. Good News Translation Beat your breasts in grief because the fertile fields and the vineyards have been destroyed, International Standard Version For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines, Majority Standard Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, NET Bible Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine! New Heart English Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThey are lamenting for breasts, "" For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine. Young's Literal Translation For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine. Smith's Literal Translation Smiting upon the breasts for the fields of desire, for the fruitful vine. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleMourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard. Catholic Public Domain Version Mourn over your breasts, over the delightful country, over the fruitful vineyard. New American Bible Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; New Revised Standard Version Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleMourn and beat upon your breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And mourn upon your chests over the grass of the field and over the vine of its fruit OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Smiting upon the breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; Brenton Septuagint Translation and beat your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible 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.… Cross References Joel 1:11-12 Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. / The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up. Amos 5:16-17 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. / There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD. Jeremiah 9:10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away. Lamentations 2:11-12 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. / They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers. Ezekiel 27:30-31 They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes. / They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning. Hosea 9:1-2 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. / The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them. Micah 1:8 Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich. Zephaniah 1:13 Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine. Isaiah 24:7-9 The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. / The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. / They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it. Jeremiah 48:33 Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy. Revelation 18:11-13 And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo— / cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; / of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and carriages; of bodies and souls of slaves. James 5:1-2 Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. / Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes. Luke 6:25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep. Matthew 11:17 ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ 1 Corinthians 7:30 those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing; Treasury of Scripture They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. lament Lamentations 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. Lamentations 4:3,4 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness… pleasant fields. Deuteronomy 8:7,8 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; … Deuteronomy 11:11,12 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: … Ezekiel 20:6,15 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: … Jump to Previous Beat Breasts Desire Fertile Fields Fruitful Lament Pleasant Pleasing Smite Smiting Sorrow Teats Vine Vines VineyardsJump to Next Beat Breasts Desire Fertile Fields Fruitful Lament Pleasant Pleasing Smite Smiting Sorrow Teats Vine Vines VineyardsIsaiah 32 1. The blessings of Christ's kingdom9. Desolation is foreshown 14. Restoration is promised to succeed Beat your breasts This phrase is a vivid expression of mourning and deep sorrow. In ancient Near Eastern cultures, including Israel, beating one's breast was a common gesture of lamentation and repentance. The Hebrew root for "beat" is "סָפַד" (saphad), which conveys the idea of wailing or lamenting. This act is a physical manifestation of inner grief and is often associated with times of national calamity or personal loss. In the context of Isaiah, it reflects the people's recognition of their dire situation and their need for repentance and divine intervention. for the pleasant fields for the fruitful vines Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Beatסֹֽפְדִ֑ים (sō·p̄ə·ḏîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 5594: To tear the hair and beat the breasts, to lament, to wail your breasts שָׁדַ֖יִם (šā·ḏa·yim) Noun - md Strong's 7699: The breast of a, woman, animal for עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the pleasant חֶ֕מֶד (ḥe·meḏ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2531: Desire, delight fields, שְׂדֵי־ (śə·ḏê-) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 7704: Field, land for the fruitful פֹּרִיָּֽה׃ (pō·rî·yāh) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 6509: To bear fruit, be fruitful vines, גֶּ֖פֶן (ge·p̄en) Noun - common singular Strong's 1612: A vine, the grape Links Isaiah 32:12 NIVIsaiah 32:12 NLT Isaiah 32:12 ESV Isaiah 32:12 NASB Isaiah 32:12 KJV Isaiah 32:12 BibleApps.com Isaiah 32:12 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 32:12 Chinese Bible Isaiah 32:12 French Bible Isaiah 32:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields (Isa Isi Is) |