Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version and for the land of my people, a land overgrown with thorns and briers-- yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry. New Living Translation For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers. Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone. English Standard Version for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city. Berean Study Bible and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. New American Standard Bible For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city. King James Bible Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Christian Standard Bible for the ground of my people growing thorns and briers, indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city. Contemporary English Version and to the happy homes in Jerusalem. The land of my people is covered with thorns. Good News Translation and thorn bushes and briers are growing on my people's land. Weep for all the houses where people were happy and for the city that was full of life. Holman Christian Standard Bible for the ground of my people growing thorns and briers, indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city. International Standard Version and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry. NET Bible Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry. New Heart English Bible Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. GOD'S WORD® Translation Mourn for my people's land where thorns and briars will grow. Mourn for all the happy homes in a joyful city. JPS Tanakh 1917 For the land of my people Whereon thorns and briers come up; Yea, for all the houses of joy And the joyous city. New American Standard 1977 For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses, and for the jubilant city. Jubilee Bible 2000 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; even upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: King James 2000 Bible Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the joyous houses in the joyous city: American King James Version On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city: American Standard Version Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. Douay-Rheims Bible Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced? Darby Bible Translation Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles [and] briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. English Revised Version Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Webster's Bible Translation Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: World English Bible Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. Young's Literal Translation Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city, Study Bible The Women of Jerusalem…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. 14For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—… Cross References Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it. Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain." Isaiah 7:23 And on that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, there will be only thorns and briers. Isaiah 22:2 O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle. Isaiah 23:7 Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away? Isaiah 23:9 The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth. Isaiah 24:11 In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land. Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city will be deserted, a homestead abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness. There the calves will graze, and there they will lie down and strip its branches bare. Isaiah 34:13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches. Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD as an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed." Jeremiah 33:4 For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword: Jeremiah 52:27 There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, The king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from her land. Hosea 2:3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. Hosea 10:8 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed; thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, "Cover us!" and to the hills, "Fall on us!" Treasury of Scripture On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city: come Isaiah 6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be … Isaiah 7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, … Isaiah 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in … Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. Hosea 9:6 For, see, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather … Hosea 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: … yea, upon. or, burning upon, etc. Jeremiah 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the … Revelation 18:7,8 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much … in the Isaiah 22:2,12,13 You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your … Verses 13-20. - A FURTHER MINGLING OF THREATS WITH COMFORTING PROMISES. The women require, like the men, to be both warned and comforted, wherefore the prophet addresses to them, as to the men in Isaiah 30. and 31, an intermixture of threatening (vers. 13, 14) with promise (vers. 15-20). Verse 13. - Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briars. This was the punishment with which the unfruitful vineyard was threatened in Isaiah 5:6. It may be understood either literally or of the wickedness that would abound when the time of judgment came. Yea, upon all the houses of joy (comp. Isaiah 5:9). If Sennacherib carried off, as he declares (G. Smith, 'Epenym Canon,' p. 134), more than two hundred thousand captives from Judaea, he must have left many houses without inhabitants. The solitude begun by him was completed by the Babylonians. The joyous city (see Isaiah 22:2). The word used has generally the sense of unholy mirth (comp. Isaiah 23:7; Isaiah 24:8; Zephaniah 2:15; Zephaniah 3:11). Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers,.... The curse of the earth, the spontaneous productions of it, being uncultivated, and this through want of men, they being destroyed or carried captive by the enemy; this is to be understood of the land of Judea, and not Samaria, as Aben Ezra; where the professing and covenant people of God dwelt; which is mentioned to show the apostasy of this people, for which ruin came upon their land, and the aggravation of it, as well as the goodness of God to them, which continued to the last, still considering them as his people. This respects not the desolation of the country by the Assyrian army, nor by the Chaldeans, but rather by the Romans, even their last destruction: yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city; not Samaria, the head of the ten tribes, as some; but Jerusalem, the joy of the whole earth, as Jarchi; and the "houses of joy" in it mean not public houses, as taverns, and the like, where persons meet to revel and carouse, but the houses of nobles, princes, and rich men, who lived voluptuously, in great sensuality and carnal mirth, drinking wine in bowls, and chanting to the sound of the viol, and using all instruments of music; but now their houses, in which they enjoyed so much pleasure, should be demolished, and briers and thorns should grow upon the spot where they stood. Some render the word "burning", as in Isaiah 3:24 "burning shall be on all the houses" (o), &c.; and think it refers to the burning of the city of Jerusalem, and the palaces or houses of nobles and rich men in it, which was done both by the Chaldeans and by the Romans. (o) Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius. 13. (Isa 5:6; 7:23). houses of joy—pleasure-houses outside of Jerusalem, not Jerusalem itself, but other cities destroyed by Sennacherib in his march (Isa 7:20-25). However, the prophecy, in its full accomplishment, refers to the utter desolation of Judea and its capital by Rome, and subsequently, previous to the second coming of the King (Ps 118:26; Lu 13:35; 19:38); "the joyous city" is in this view, Jerusalem (Isa 22:2).32:9-20 When there was so much provocation given to the holy God, bad times might be expected. Alas! how many careless ones there are, who support self-indulgence by shameful stinginess! We deserve to be deprived of the supports of life, when we make them the food of lusts. Let such tremble and be troubled. Blessed times shall be brought in by the pouring out of the Spirit from on high; then, and not till then, there will be good times. The present state of the Jews shall continue until a more abundant pouring out of the Spirit from on high. Peace and quietness shall be found in the way and work of righteousness. True satisfaction is to be had only in true religion. And real holiness is real happiness now, and shall be perfect happiness, that is, perfect holiness for ever. The good seed of the word shall be sown in all places, and be watered by Divine grace; and laborious, patient labourers shall be sent forth into God's husbandry. 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