Isaiah 32 · Verse 12

Isaiah 32:12

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Isaiah 32:12, King James Version

Isaiah 32:12 in other translations

BSBBeat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
WEBBeat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
ASVThey shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
YLTFor breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.
DARBYThey shall smite on the breasts in lamentation for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.
BBEHave sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;
WebsterThey shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

What does Isaiah 32:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 32:9-20

9-20. 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…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 They shall lament - for the pleasant fields "Mourn ye for the pleasant field" - The Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read ספדו siphdu, mourn ye, imperative; twelve MSS., (five ancient), two editions, the Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Syriac, and Vulgate, all read שדה sadeh, a field; not שדי shedey, breasts.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 32:9-20

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…

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Isaiah 32:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עַל\־'al-onH5921
שָׁדַ֖יִםsha.Da.yimbreastsH7699
סֹֽפְדִ֑יםso.fe.DimmourningH5594
עַל\־'al-onH5921
שְׂדֵי\־se.dei-fields ofH7704
חֶ֕מֶדChe.meddelightH2531
עַל\־'al-onH5921
גֶּ֖פֶןGe.fenvine[s]H1612
פֹּרִיָּֽה\׃po.ri.YahfruitfulH6509

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 32:12

  • Deuteronomy 8:7-8

    For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

  • Deuteronomy 11:11-12

    But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

  • Ezekiel 20:15

    Yet also I lifted up my hand unto 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;

  • Lamentations 2:11

    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  • Lamentations 4:3-4

    Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

  • Nahum 2:7

    And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

  • Ezekiel 20:6

    In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
lament.
La 2:11; 4:3,4
pleasant fields. Heb. fields of desire.
De 8:7,8; 11:11,12; Eze 20:6,15

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Context

  • Isaiah 32:11

    Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

  • Isaiah 32:12

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

  • Isaiah 32:13

    Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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Isaiah 32:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Sobre los pechos lamentarán por los campos deleitosos, por la vid fértil.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		On se frappe la poitrine à cause des champs agréables, à cause des vignes fertiles.
German
Elberfelder 1871		An die Brust schlägt man sich wegen der lieblichen Fluren, wegen des fruchtbaren Weinstocks.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Super ubera plangite, super regione desiderabili, super vinea fertili.