Isaiah 32:12

Modern

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

Traditional

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

Literal

For breasts they are lamenting over the fields of delight, over the fruitful vine,

Latin

Super ubera plangite, super regione desiderabili, super vinea fertili.

Hebrew

English

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

This prophecy warned the complacent women of Jerusalem. God's promises for the future did not excuse ongoing sin.

Theme notes and profiles

Lamentations 4:3–4
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Nahum 2:7
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
Deuteronomy 8:7–8
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 11:11–12
But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.