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:
Isaiah 32:13 in other translations
| BSB | and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. |
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| WEB | Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. |
| ASV | Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. |
| YLT | Over the ground of my people thorn--brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city, |
| DARBY | Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. |
| BBE | And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town. |
| Webster | Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: |
What does Isaiah 32:13 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…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
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…
Isaiah 32:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 32:13
- Hosea 9:6
For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
- Isaiah 22:2
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
- Isaiah 34:13
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
- Isaiah 7:23
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
- Revelation 18:7-8
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
- Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
- Isaiah 6:11
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
- Isaiah 22:12-13
And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
- Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 5:6
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Psalms 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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Context
- 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:
- Isaiah 32:14
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;
Isaiah 32:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Sobre la tierra de mi pueblo subirán espinas y cardos; y aun sobre todas las casas de placer en la ciudad de alegría. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Sur la terre de mon peuple croissent des épines et des ronces, même sur toutes les maisons de délices de la cité joyeuse. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Auf dem Felde meines Volkes schießen Gestrüpp und Dornen auf, ja, auf allen Häusern der Wonne in der frohlockenden Stadt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Super humum populi mei spinæ et vepres ascendent: quanto magis super omnes domos gaudii civitatis exultantis! |