Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

World Messianic Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

13Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:11but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,

Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.

Lamentations 4:3Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:15Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

Nahum 2:7It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on 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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