Isaiah 17:2
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 Standard Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

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.

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.

Legacy Standard Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They will be for flocks, and they will lie down in them; And there will be no one to cause them to tremble.

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.

American Standard Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Literal Standard Version
The cities of Aroer are forsaken, | They are for droves, and they have lain down, | And there is none troubling.

Majority Standard 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 Bible
Her cities shall be forever abandoned, for flocks to lie in undisturbed.

NET Bible
The cities of Aroer are abandoned. They will be used for herds, which will lie down there in peace.

New Revised Standard Version
Her towns will be deserted forever; they will be places for flocks, which will lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

New Heart English Bible
Her cities will be abandoned forever. They will 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.

World English Bible
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

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

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Context
An Oracle Concerning Damascus
1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins. 2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear. 3The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.…

Cross References
Numbers 32:34
And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

Job 11:19
You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

Isaiah 7:21
On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,

Isaiah 7:22
and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

Isaiah 27:10
For the fortified city lies deserted--a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

Ezekiel 25:5
I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'

Ezekiel 39:26
They will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Aroer

Numbers 32:34
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:

Deuteronomy 3:12
And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

they shall

Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Isaiah 7:23-25
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns…

Ezekiel 25:5
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

none

Jeremiah 7:33
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

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Verse 2. - The cities of Aroer are forsaken. That the Aroer of this passage cannot be either that on the Arnon, or that facing Rabbath-Ammon (Joshua 13:25), has long been perceived and recognized (see Mr. Grove's article on "Aroer" in the 'Dict. of the Bible,' vol. 1. p. 115). It is evidently a city of the same name lying much further towards the north. Arid it is a city of far greater importance, having "cities" dependent on it. Now, Sargon's annals tell us of a "Gal'gar," a name well expressing the Hebrew ערער, which was united in a league with Damascus, Samaria, Arpad, and Simyra, in the second year of Sargon, and was the scene of a great battle and a great destruction. Sargon besieged it, took it, and reduced it to ashes ('Records of the Past,' 50.s.e.). There is every reason to recognize the "Aroer" of this verse in the "Gargar" of Sargon's inscriptions. They shall be for flocks (comp. Isaiah 5:17; Isaiah 7:25). It marked the very extreme of desolation, that cattle should be pastured on the sites of cities. None shall make them afraid; i.e. "there shall be no inhabitants to make any objection."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The cities
עָרֵ֣י (‘ā·rê)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

of Aroer
עֲרֹעֵ֑ר (‘ă·rō·‘êr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6177: Aroer -- three cities in Israel

are forsaken;
עֲזֻב֖וֹת (‘ă·zu·ḇō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine plural
Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

they will be left
תִּֽהְיֶ֔ינָה (tih·ye·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

to the flocks,
לַעֲדָרִ֣ים (la·‘ă·ḏā·rîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5739: An arrangement, muster

which will lie down
וְרָבְצ֖וּ (wə·rā·ḇə·ṣū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7257: To crouch, be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

with no one
וְאֵ֥ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

to fear.
מַחֲרִֽיד׃ (ma·ḥă·rîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2729: To shudder with terror, to fear, to hasten


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