Isaiah 32:12

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

13And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:11But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:

Isaiah 24:7The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

Lamentations 4:3Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.

Ezekiel 20:15And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;

Nahum 2:7\2:6\The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 32:10-20

Joyful Prospects. ( b. c. 726.) 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. 10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. 11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. 12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up… Read the whole commentary →

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