Isaiah 17:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid.

New Living Translation
The towns of Aroer will be deserted. Flocks will graze in the streets and lie down undisturbed, with no one to chase them away.

English Standard Version
The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.

Berean Study Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

New American Standard Bible
“The cities of Aroer are abandoned; They will be for herds to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them.

NASB 1995
"The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them.

NASB 1977
“The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks to lie down in, And there will be no one to frighten them.

Amplified Bible
“The cities of Aroer [east of the Jordan] are deserted; They will be [only a refuge] for flocks to lie down in, And there will be no one to make them afraid.

Christian Standard Bible
The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be places for flocks. They will lie down without fear.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be places for flocks. They will lie down without fear.

Contemporary English Version
The villages around Aroer will be deserted, with only sheep living there and no one to bother them.

Good News Translation
The cities of Syria will be deserted forever. They will be a pasture for sheep and cattle, and no one will drive them away.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The cities of Aroer will be deserted. These cities will be used for sheep, which will lie down in them. There will be no one to disturb those sheep.

International Standard Version
The cities of Oraru will be deserted— they will be devoted to herds that will lay at rest, and terrorism will be no more.

NET Bible
The cities of Aroer are abandoned. They will be used for herds, which will lie down there in peace.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

New King James Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks Which lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

King James 2000 Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

New Heart English Bible
The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says the LORD of hosts.

World English Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

American King James Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none 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.

A Faithful Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; now they shall be for flocks; they shall lie down, and no one terrifies them.

Darby Bible 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.

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken: they shall be for the flockes: for they shall lye there, and none shall make them afraide.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The waste cities of Aroer shalbe foldes for cattell which shall lye there, and there shalbe none to fray them away.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The cities of Aroer shalbe waist, The catel shal lie there, & noma shal fraye the awaye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken, "" They are for droves, and they have lain down, "" And there is none troubling.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
The cities of Aroer were forsaken: they shall be for flocks, and they lay down, and none terrifying.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The cities in ruin will be left for the flocks, and they will take rest there, and there will be no one who may terrify them.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the cities of Aduir shall be forsaken, and they shall be for flocks that they will lie down in them, and it shall not be harmful for them

Lamsa Bible
The cities of Adoer shall be forsaken; they shall be for flocks which shall lie down in them, and none shall harm them.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They shall be for flocks, Which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.
















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