Tree of Life Version
Isaiah 32:14
14For the palace will be abandoned; the bustling city will be deserted; the citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, a delight of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
Isaiah 32:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
- New International Version (NIV)The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
- English Standard Version (ESV)For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—
Context of Isaiah 32:14
12Beat your breasts lamenting for pleasant fields, for fruitful vine, 13for the land of my people, where thorns and briars come up, for all the joyful houses of the jubilant city. For the palace will be abandoned; the bustling city will be deserted; the citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, a delight of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks, 15until the Ruach is poured out on us from on high, and the desert becomes a garden, and a garden seems like a forest. 16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the garden.
Read all of Isaiah 32Isaiah 32:14 word by word
כִּֽי־אַרְמ֣וֹן נֻטָּ֔שׁ הֲמ֥וֹן עִ֖יר עֻזָּ֑ב עֹ֣פֶל וָבַ֜חַן הָיָ֨ה בְעַ֤ד מְעָרוֹת֙ עַד־עוֹלָ֔ם מְשׂ֥וֹשׂ פְּרָאִ֖ים מִרְעֵ֥ה עֲדָרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Because the palacesאַרְמוֹן'armôn · citadel: palaceH759
- shall be forsakenנָטַשׁnâţash · to leaveH5203
- the multitudeהָמוֹןhâmôn hâmôn · crowdH1995
- of the cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
- shall be leftעָזַב‛âzab · to leave: forsakeH5800
- the fortsעֹ֫פֶל‛ôphel · hillH6076
- and towersבַּ֫חַןbachan · watchtowerH975
- shall be for densמְעָרָהme‛ârâh · caveH4631
- forעַד‛ad · tillH5704
- everעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769
- a joyמָשׂוֹשׂmâώôώ · rejoicingH4885
- of wild assesפֶּ֫רֶאpere' pereh · wild donkeyH6501
- a pastureמִרְעֶהmir‛eh · pastureH4829
- of flocksעֵ֫דֶר‛êder · flockH5739
Cross-references for Isaiah 32:14
- Isaiah 5:9In my ears, Adonai-Tzva’ot has said: “Surely many houses will be desolate— even grand and fine ones— with no occupants.”
- Isaiah 24:1Behold, Adonai makes the land empty and makes it waste, twists its face, and scatters its inhabitants.
- Isaiah 25:2For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a foreigner’s palace a city no more— never to be rebuilt.
- Isaiah 27:10The fortified city is a lonely habitation, forlorn and forsaken like the desert. There the calf will graze, there lie down and consume its branches.
- 2 Kings 25:9He burned down the House of Adonai, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem—every notable building he burned with fire.
- Luke 21:20“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.
- Isaiah 13:19So Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of Chaldean pride, will be just as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 34:11But pelican and porcupine will have it, owl and raven will dwell in it. He will stretch a line of chaos over it and stones of desolation.
- Revelation 18:2He cried out with a mighty voice, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a den for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit and for every unclean bird and for every unclean and detestable beast.
Commentaries on Isaiah 32:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The palaces shall be forsaken - The house of the sanctuary (the temple) shall be destroyed. - Targum. The forts "Ophel" - It was a part of Mount Zion, rising higher than the rest, at the eastern extremity, near to the temple, a little to the south of it; called by Micah, Micah 4:8, "Ophel of the daughter of Zion. "It was naturally strong by its situation; and had a wall of its own, by which it was separated from the rest of Zion.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Because the palaces shall be forsaken - That is, the palaces in the cities and towns which Sennacherib would lay waste. Or, if it refers, as Lowth supposes, to the invasion of the land in the time of the Chaldeans, then it relates to the palaces in Jerusalem. Vitringa supposes that the temple at Jerusalem is particularly designated by the word rendered palaces. But that is not the usual word to denote the temlple, and it is not necessary to suppose that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-20Verses 9-20 When there was so much provocation given to the holy God, bad times might be expected. Alas! how many careless ones there are, who support self-indulgence by shameful niggardliness! We deserve to be deprived of the supports of life, when we make them the food of lusts. Let such tremble and be troubled. Blessed times shall be brought in by the pouring out of the Spirit from on high; then, and not till then, there will be good times. The present…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14The Babylonians, not the Assyrians, eventually destroyed Jerusalem (see Isaiah 39:1–8 for a prediction of this).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-209-20. Address to the women of Jerusalem who troubled themselves little about the political signs of the times, but lived a life of self-indulgence (Is 3:16-23); the failure of food through the devastations of the enemy is here foretold, being what was most likely to affect them as mothers of families, heretofore accustomed to every luxury. Vitringa understands "women--daughters" as the cities and villages of Judea (Eze 16:1-63). See Am 6:1.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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