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href="/bsb/isaiah/32.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/isaiah/32.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/32.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms and your fruitful grapevines.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/32.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/32.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/32.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/32.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/32.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/32.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/32.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/32.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the desirable fields, for the fruitful vine,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/32.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/32.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/32.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/32.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/32.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Slap your breasts in sorrow because of what happened to the fruitful fields and vineyards, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/32.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/32.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Beat your breasts as you mourn for the fields, for the vines bearing grapes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/32.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Beat your breasts in grief because the fertile fields and the vineyards have been destroyed, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/32.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/32.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/32.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/32.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/32.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />They shall lament for the breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/32.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/32.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />They are lamenting for breasts, "" For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/32.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/32.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Smiting upon the breasts for the fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/32.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/32.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Mourn over your breasts, over the delightful country, over the fruitful vineyard.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/32.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/32.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/32.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Mourn and beat upon your breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/32.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And mourn upon your chests over the grass of the field and over the vine of its fruit<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/32.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Smiting upon the breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/32.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />and beat your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/32-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=6765" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/32.htm">The Women of Jerusalem</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5594.htm" title="5594: sō·p̄ə·ḏîm (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts; generally to lament; by implication, to wail.">Beat</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7699.htm" title="7699: šā·ḏa·yim (N-md) -- The breast of a, woman, animal. Or shod; probably from shuwd contracted; the breast of a woman or animal.">your breasts</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/2531.htm" title="2531: ḥe·meḏ (N-ms) -- Desire, delight. Om chamad; delight.">the pleasant</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7704.htm" title="7704: śə·ḏê- (N-mpc) -- Field, land. Or saday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field.">fields,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6509.htm" title="6509: pō·rî·yāh (V-Qal-Prtcpl-fs) -- To bear fruit, be fruitful. A primitive root; to bear fruit.">for the fruitful</a> <a href="/hebrew/1612.htm" title="1612: ge·p̄en (N-cs) -- A vine. From an unused root meaning to bend; a vine, especially the grape.">vines,</a> </span><span class="reftext">13</span>and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11-12</a></span><br />Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. / The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-16.htm">Amos 5:16-17</a></span><br />Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail. / There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/9-10.htm">Jeremiah 9:10</a></span><br />I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/2-11.htm">Lamentations 2:11-12</a></span><br />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. / They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/27-30.htm">Ezekiel 27:30-31</a></span><br />They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes. / They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Hosea 9:1-2</a></span><br />Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. / The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/1-8.htm">Micah 1:8</a></span><br />Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-13.htm">Zephaniah 1:13</a></span><br />Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">Isaiah 24:7-9</a></span><br />The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan. / The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent. / They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/48-33.htm">Jeremiah 48:33</a></span><br />Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-11.htm">Revelation 18:11-13</a></span><br />And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo— / cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory, precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; / of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and carriages; of bodies and souls of slaves.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/5-1.htm">James 5:1-2</a></span><br />Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you. / Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/6-25.htm">Luke 6:25</a></span><br />Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-17.htm">Matthew 11:17</a></span><br />‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-30.htm">1 Corinthians 7:30</a></span><br />those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.</p><p class="hdg">lament</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/2-11.htm">Lamentations 2:11</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/lamentations/4-3.htm">Lamentations 4:3,4</a></b></br> Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people <i>is become</i> cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness… </p><p class="hdg">pleasant fields.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/8-7.htm">Deuteronomy 8:7,8</a></b></br> 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; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/11-11.htm">Deuteronomy 11:11,12</a></b></br> But the land, whither ye go to possess it, <i>is</i> a land of hills and valleys, <i>and</i> drinketh water of the rain of heaven: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/20-6.htm">Ezekiel 20:6,15</a></b></br> In the day <i>that</i> 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 <i>is</i> the glory of all lands: … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/27-12.htm">Beat</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-9.htm">Breasts</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-9.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm">Fertile</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-7.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm">Fruitful</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-8.htm">Lament</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-10.htm">Pleasant</a> <a href="/songs/7-6.htm">Pleasing</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-31.htm">Smite</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-7.htm">Smiting</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-2.htm">Sorrow</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm">Teats</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-7.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-10.htm">Vineyards</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/41-15.htm">Beat</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-16.htm">Breasts</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Fertile</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-7.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Fruitful</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-8.htm">Lament</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-12.htm">Pleasant</a> <a href="/isaiah/56-4.htm">Pleasing</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-10.htm">Smite</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-6.htm">Smiting</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-10.htm">Sorrow</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-3.htm">Teats</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-4.htm">Vine</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-10.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-17.htm">Vineyards</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 32</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/32-1.htm">The blessings of Christ's kingdom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/32-9.htm">Desolation is foreshown</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Restoration is promised to succeed</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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It signifies deep sorrow and repentance. In the context of Isaiah, it reflects the people's grief over the impending judgment and desolation due to their disobedience. This act of beating one's breast is also seen in <a href="/luke/18-13.htm">Luke 18:13</a>, where the tax collector shows repentance, highlighting a universal symbol of contrition and sorrow.<p><b>for the pleasant fields</b><br>The "pleasant fields" symbolize the prosperity and abundance that the land of Judah once enjoyed. These fields were a source of sustenance and economic stability. The impending judgment would turn these fertile lands into desolation, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13-14</a>. This imagery is reminiscent of the curses for disobedience outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-15.htm">Deuteronomy 28:15-68</a>, where the land's productivity is directly tied to the people's faithfulness to God.<p><b>for the fruitful vines</b><br>Vines and vineyards are often used in Scripture to represent Israel (<a href="/isaiah/5.htm">Isaiah 5:1-7</a>) and God's blessings. The fruitful vines indicate a time of peace and prosperity, which would be lost due to the nation's sin. The destruction of the vineyards serves as a metaphor for the spiritual barrenness that results from turning away from God. This imagery also points forward to Jesus Christ, who in <a href="/john/15.htm">John 15:1-5</a>, describes Himself as the true vine, emphasizing the need for spiritual connection and fruitfulness through Him.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>The prophet who delivered this message. He was a major prophet in the Old Testament, known for his prophecies concerning judgment and redemption.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah_and_jerusalem.htm">Judah and Jerusalem</a></b><br>The primary audience of Isaiah's prophecies. During Isaiah's time, these regions were facing impending judgment due to their disobedience to God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_pleasant_fields_and_fruitful_vines.htm">The Pleasant Fields and Fruitful Vines</a></b><br>Symbolic representations of prosperity and blessing. In the context of Isaiah's prophecy, they are threatened due to the people's unfaithfulness.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_women_of_jerusalem.htm">The Women of Jerusalem</a></b><br>While not directly mentioned in this verse, the surrounding context (<a href="/isaiah/32-9.htm">Isaiah 32:9-11</a>) addresses the complacent women of Jerusalem, urging them to mourn for the coming desolation.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_coming_desolation.htm">The Coming Desolation</a></b><br>The event of judgment that Isaiah warns about, which will lead to the loss of prosperity and blessings.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_complacency.htm">The Consequences of Complacency</a></b><br><a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12</a> serves as a warning against spiritual complacency. The people are called to mourn because their neglect of God's commands leads to the loss of blessings.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a></b><br>The act of beating one's breasts is a sign of deep sorrow and repentance. This verse calls believers to examine their lives and turn back to God with sincere hearts.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_fragility_of_earthly_prosperity.htm">The Fragility of Earthly Prosperity</a></b><br>The pleasant fields and fruitful vines symbolize material blessings that can be lost due to disobedience. Believers are reminded to prioritize spiritual wealth over earthly prosperity.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_call_to_awareness_and_action.htm">God's Call to Awareness and Action</a></b><br>The passage challenges believers to be aware of the spiritual state of their communities and to take action through prayer and repentance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_beyond_judgment.htm">Hope Beyond Judgment</a></b><br>While the verse speaks of mourning, the broader context of Isaiah includes promises of restoration and hope for those who turn back to God.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/32.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">They shall lament for the teats . . .</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">shall smite upon the breasts. </span>The Hebrew nouns for "teats" and "fields," <span class= "ital">Shadaim </span>and <span class= "ital">Sade, </span>have an assonance which may be represented by the Latin <span class= "ital">ubera </span>and <span class= "ital">ubertas. </span>In the renewed, unabated luxury of the women of Jerusalem Isaiah sees the precursor of another time of desolation like that which he had foretold before in the reign of Ahaz (<a href="/isaiah/7-24.htm" title="With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.">Isaiah 7:24</a>). "Thorns and briers" are again to take the place of the fair gardens in the outskirts of Jerusalem during the invasion of Sennacherib, as they had once before in that of Rezin and Pekah. The "houses of joy" are manifestly what we should call the stately villas of the rich.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/32.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They shall lament for the teats</span>, etc.; rather, <span class="accented">they shall beat upon the breasts for the pleasant fields</span>, <span class="accented">etc</span>. (so the LXX., the Vulgate, Jarchi, Gesenius, Ewald, Maurer, Knobel, Delitzsch, and Mr. Cheyne). Dr. Kay prefers the rendering of the Authorized Version, understanding by "the teats" such "dry breasts" as Hosea speaks of (<a href="/hosea/9-14.htm">Hosea 9:14</a>). But nothing has been said in this place of any such affliction. <span class="cmt_word">For the pleasant fields</span>, etc.; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> for their loss (see ver. 10). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/32-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Beat</span><br /><span class="heb">סֹֽפְדִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(sō·p̄ə·ḏîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5594.htm">Strong's 5594: </a> </span><span class="str2">To tear the hair and beat the breasts, to lament, to wail</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your breasts</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁדַ֖יִם</span> <span class="translit">(šā·ḏa·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - md<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7699.htm">Strong's 7699: </a> </span><span class="str2">The breast of a, woman, animal</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the pleasant</span><br /><span class="heb">חֶ֕מֶד</span> <span class="translit">(ḥe·meḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2531.htm">Strong's 2531: </a> </span><span class="str2">Desire, delight</span><br /><br /><span class="word">fields,</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׂדֵי־</span> <span class="translit">(śə·ḏê-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7704.htm">Strong's 7704: </a> </span><span class="str2">Field, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for the fruitful</span><br /><span class="heb">פֹּרִיָּֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(pō·rî·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6509.htm">Strong's 6509: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bear fruit, be fruitful</span><br /><br /><span class="word">vines,</span><br /><span class="heb">גֶּ֖פֶן</span> <span class="translit">(ge·p̄en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1612.htm">Strong's 1612: </a> </span><span class="str2">A vine, the grape</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 32:12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/32-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 32:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 32:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 32:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 32:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>