Isaiah 32:12
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,for the fruitful vine.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
In Context
13Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land;yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:11but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of 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 the breast, they nurse their young ones, butthe daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.DALET
Ezekiel 20:15"'"Moreover 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 handmaids 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 →