Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts in sadness over the loss of your lovely fields, your productive vines,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Shudder, you women relaxing! Tremble, you ladies who feel so safe! Strip off your clothes, bare yourselves and put on sackcloth around your waists.

13over the loss of the land of my people. Mourn because it's now overgrown with thorns and brambles, mourn because of the loss of all the happy homes and joyful towns.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:11But here in the country that you are crossing the Jordan to take over is a land of mountains and valleys that receives plenty of rain

Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, and the vine withers. All the people celebrating groan.

Lamentations 4:3Even jackals nurse their young at their breasts, but the women of my people have become cruel, like an ostrich in the desert.

Ezekiel 20:15So I held up my hand and vowed to them in the desert that I wouldn't take them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey—better than any other country—

Nahum 2:7“Queen” Nineveh is stripped, and led away into exile, with her servant girls mourning like doves, and beating their breasts.

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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