Isaiah 32:14
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"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;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
עָזַב
ʻâzab
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
עִיר
ʻîyr
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
פִּנָּה
pinnâh
an angle; by implication, a pinnacle; figuratively, a chieftain
מִנְהָרָה
minhârâh
properly, a channel or fissure, i.e. (by implication) a cavern
עוֹלָם
ʻôwlâm
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (...
שִׂמְחָה
simchâh
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
מִרְעֶה
mirʻeh
pasture (the place or the act); also the haunt of wild animals
צֹאן
tsôʼn
a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
Key Terms in This Verse
מִנְהָרָה minhârâh
properly, a channel or fissure, i.e. (by implication) a cavern
Study H4492 →פִּנָּה pinnâh
an angle; by implication, a pinnacle; figuratively, a chieftain
Study H6438 →מִרְעֶה mirʻeh
pasture (the place or the act); also the haunt of wild animals
Study H4829 →צֹאן tsôʼn
a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
Study H6629 →Cross References
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
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,
They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
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