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Calves will graze there, chewing on twigs and branches. <a href="/esv/isaiah/27.htm">English Standard Version</a> For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches. <a href="/bsb/isaiah/27.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare. <a href="/kjv/isaiah/27.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/27.htm">New King James Version</a> Yet the fortified city will be desolate, The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness; There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down And consume its branches. <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/27.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For the fortified city is isolated, A homestead deserted and abandoned like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches. <a href="/nasb/isaiah/27.htm">NASB 1995</a> For the fortified city is isolated, A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches. <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/27.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For the fortified city is isolated, A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches. <a href="/lsb/isaiah/27.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For the fortified city is isolated, A haunt forlorn and forsaken like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its twigs. <a href="/amp/isaiah/27.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For the fortified city is isolated, A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches. <a href="/csb/isaiah/27.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For the fortified city will be desolate, pastures deserted and abandoned like a wilderness. Calves will graze there, and there they will spread out and strip its branches. <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/27.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For the fortified city will be deserted, pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness. Calves will graze there, and there they will spread out and strip its branches. <a href="/asv/isaiah/27.htm">American Standard Version</a> For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. <a href="/cev/isaiah/27.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Fortress cities are left like a desert where no one lives. Cattle walk through the ruins, stripping the trees bare. <a href="/erv/isaiah/27.htm">English Revised Version</a> For the defenced city is solitary, an habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/27.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> The fortified city is isolated. The homestead is left deserted, abandoned like the desert. Calves will graze there. They will lie down. They will feed on the branches. <a href="/gnt/isaiah/27.htm">Good News Translation</a> The fortified city lies in ruins. It is deserted like an empty wilderness. It has become a pasture for cattle, where they can rest and graze. <a href="/isv/isaiah/27.htm">International Standard Version</a> For the fortified city stands desolate, a settlement abandoned and forsaken like the desert; calves graze there, and there they lie down and strip bare its branches. <a href="/msb/isaiah/27.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For the fortified city lies deserted?a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare. <a href="/net/isaiah/27.htm">NET Bible</a> For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare. <a href="/nheb/isaiah/27.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. <a href="/wbt/isaiah/27.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Yet the fortified 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 its branches. <a href="/web/isaiah/27.htm">World English Bible</a> For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/27.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> For the fortified city [is] alone, "" A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, "" There the calf delights, "" And there it lies down, "" And has consumed its branches. <a href="/ylt/isaiah/27.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> For the fenced city is alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches. <a href="/slt/isaiah/27.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For the fortified city was separated, the habitation being cast out and forsaken as the desert: there shall the calf feed, and there he shall lie down, and there he finished its branches.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/27.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness : there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/27.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/27.htm">New American Bible</a> For the fortified city shall be desolate, an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness; There calves shall graze, there they shall lie down, and consume its branches. <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/27.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calves graze there, there they lie down, and strip its branches.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/27.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For the strong city shall be forlorn and deserted and forsaken and left desolate like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume its grass. <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/27.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Because the powerful city is alone, desolate, forsaken and waste as a wilderness. The calf will feed there and there he shall feed and shall finish its sprouts of grass<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/27.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> For the fortified city is solitary, A habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; There shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, And consume the branches thereof <a href="/sep/isaiah/27.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> The flock that dwelt there shall be left, as a deserted flock; and the ground shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks lie down to rest. <a href="/parallel/isaiah/27-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=5487" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/27.htm">The LORD's Vineyard</a> …9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing. 10<a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/1219.htm" title="1219: bə·ṣū·rāh (Adj-fs) -- To cut off, make inaccessible, enclose. A primitive root; to clip off; specifically to gather grapes; also to be isolated.">the fortified</a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: ‘îr (N-fs) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense.">city</a> <a href="/hebrew/910.htm" title="910: bā·ḏāḏ (N-ms) -- Isolation, separation. From badad; separate; adverb, separately.">lies deserted—</a> <a href="/hebrew/5116.htm" title="5116: nā·weh (N-ms) -- Or navah; from navah; at home; hence lovely; also a home, of God, men, flocks, or wild animals.">a homestead</a> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: mə·šul·lāḥ (V-Pual-Prtcpl-ms) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">abandoned,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: kam·miḏ·bār (Prep-k, Art:: N-ms) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">a wilderness</a> <a href="/hebrew/5800.htm" title="5800: wə·ne·‘ĕ·zāḇ (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To loosen, relinquish, permit. A primitive root; to loosen, i.e. Relinquish, permit, etc.">forsaken.</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: šām (Adv) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">There</a> <a href="/hebrew/5695.htm" title="5695: ‘ê·ḡel (N-ms) -- A calf. From the same as agol; a calf, especially one nearly grown.">the calves</a> <a href="/hebrew/7462.htm" title="7462: yir·‘eh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to tend a flock; i.e. Pasture it; intransitively, to graze; generally to rule; by extension, to associate with.">graze,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: wə·šām (Conj-w:: Adv) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">and there</a> <a href="/hebrew/7257.htm" title="7257: yir·bāṣ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to crouch; be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed.">they lie down;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3615.htm" title="3615: wə·ḵil·lāh (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent. A primitive root; to end, whether intransitive or transitived.">they strip</a> <a href="/hebrew/5585.htm" title="5585: sə·‘i·p̄e·hā (N-mpc:: 3fs) -- A cleft, branch. From ca'aph; a fissure; also a bough.">its branches bare.</a> 11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a> I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.” <a href="/jeremiah/4-26.htm">Jeremiah 4:26</a> I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger. <a href="/jeremiah/9-11.htm">Jeremiah 9:11</a> “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.” <a href="/jeremiah/12-10.htm">Jeremiah 12:10-11</a> Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland. / They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart. <a href="/ezekiel/6-6.htm">Ezekiel 6:6</a> Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out. <a href="/ezekiel/12-20.htm">Ezekiel 12:20</a> The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’” <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12</a> I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them. <a href="/hosea/9-6.htm">Hosea 9:6</a> For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents. <a href="/micah/3-12.htm">Micah 3:12</a> Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge. <a href="/zephaniah/3-6.htm">Zephaniah 3:6</a> “I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant. <a href="/matthew/23-38.htm">Matthew 23:38</a> Look, your house is left to you desolate. <a href="/luke/13-35.htm">Luke 13:35</a> Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’” <a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Revelation 18:2</a> And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast. <a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13-14</a> and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. / For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks— <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11</a> And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Yet the defended 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 defenced<a href="/isaiah/5-9.htm">Isaiah 5:9,10</a> In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant… <a href="/isaiah/6-11.htm">Isaiah 6:11,12</a> 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, … <a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Isaiah 17:9</a> In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.there shall the<a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Isaiah 7:25</a> And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.<a href="/isaiah/17-2.htm">Isaiah 17:2</a> The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.<a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13,14</a> Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Abandoned</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-13.htm">Alone</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-6.htm">Branches</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-6.htm">Calf</a> <a href="/psalms/68-30.htm">Calves</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-5.htm">City</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-11.htm">Consume</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-2.htm">Defenced</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-5.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Deserted</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-10.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-30.htm">Feed</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-2.htm">Fenced</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-6.htm">Food</a> <a href="/psalms/35-12.htm">Forlorn</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Forsaken</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-12.htm">Fortified</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-7.htm">Graze</a> <a href="/exodus/22-5.htm">Grazes</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-16.htm">Habitation</a> <a href="/acts/1-20.htm">Homestead</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-19.htm">Lie</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-7.htm">Ox</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-10.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/genesis/10-30.htm">Settlement</a> <a href="/psalms/107-4.htm">Solitary</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-8.htm">Stands</a> <a href="/job/41-13.htm">Strip</a> <a href="/psalms/29-9.htm">Strips</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-1.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-11.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-1.htm">Unpeopled</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-10.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-13.htm">Wilderness</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-4.htm">Young</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Abandoned</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-16.htm">Alone</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-11.htm">Branches</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-5.htm">Calf</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-7.htm">Calves</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-1.htm">City</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-8.htm">Consume</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-1.htm">Defenced</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-9.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Deserted</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-8.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-23.htm">Feed</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-1.htm">Fenced</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-8.htm">Food</a> <a href="/1_samuel/2-5.htm">Forlorn</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Forsaken</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-13.htm">Fortified</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-23.htm">Graze</a> <a href="/exodus/22-5.htm">Grazes</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-18.htm">Habitation</a> <a href="/acts/1-20.htm">Homestead</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-8.htm">Lie</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-20.htm">Ox</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-5.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/matthew/18-23.htm">Settlement</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-1.htm">Solitary</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-8.htm">Stands</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-11.htm">Strip</a> <a href="/nahum/3-16.htm">Strips</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-1.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-11.htm">Thereof</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Unpeopled</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-15.htm">Wilderness</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-6.htm">Young</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 27</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/27-1.htm">The Deliverance of Israel</a> </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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In the context of Isaiah, this could refer to cities in Israel or Judah that faced judgment due to their disobedience to God. Historically, cities like Samaria and Jerusalem were fortified and faced destruction or desolation as a result of invasions by Assyrian and Babylonian forces. The imagery of a deserted city serves as a warning of the consequences of turning away from God.a homestead abandoned, The term "homestead" implies a place of dwelling and livelihood, now left without inhabitants. This reflects the broader theme of exile and displacement found throughout the prophetic books. The abandonment signifies not only physical desolation but also spiritual and communal loss. It echoes the covenant curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>, where disobedience leads to desolation and scattering.a wilderness forsaken. The transformation from a thriving city to a forsaken wilderness underscores the severity of divine judgment. In biblical symbolism, the wilderness often represents chaos, danger, and a place of testing. This phrase may also allude to the reversal of the Promised Land's blessings, turning a land flowing with milk and honey into a barren wasteland, as seen in the curses for covenant unfaithfulness.There the calves graze, The presence of calves grazing in what was once a fortified city indicates a complete reversal of its former status. Calves, representing domesticated animals, suggest that the area has become so desolate that it is now suitable only for pasture. This imagery is reminiscent of other prophetic passages where desolation leads to wild animals inhabiting once-populated areas, such as in <a href="/isaiah/13-21.htm">Isaiah 13:21-22</a>.and there they lie down; The act of lying down implies a sense of peace and rest, but in this context, it is ironic. The peace is not for the people but for the animals, highlighting the total abandonment by humans. This can be seen as a fulfillment of prophetic warnings where the land, once vibrant with human activity, becomes a place of rest for animals due to human absence.they strip its branches bare. The stripping of branches by the calves suggests a complete consumption of what remains, leaving nothing behind. This can symbolize the thoroughness of judgment and the stripping away of prosperity and security. It also reflects the idea of a land being laid waste, as seen in other prophetic writings, where the land mourns and languishes due to the people's sins, such as in <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-12</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/f/fortified_city.htm">Fortified City</a> Represents a place of strength and security that has been abandoned. In the context of Isaiah, it often symbolizes human pride and self-reliance that ultimately fails. 2. <a href="/topical/w/wilderness.htm">Wilderness</a> A place of desolation and abandonment, often used in the Bible to signify judgment or a lack of divine presence. 3. <a href="/topical/c/calf.htm">Calf</a> An animal that symbolizes innocence and simplicity, grazing in the abandoned city, indicating a reversal of fortunes and the futility of human efforts without God. 4. <a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a> The prophet who conveyed God's messages to the people of Judah and Jerusalem, warning them of judgment and offering hope for restoration. 5. <a href="/topical/j/judgment_and_restoration.htm">Judgment and Restoration</a> Themes throughout Isaiah, where God judges the unfaithfulness of His people but also promises eventual restoration and peace.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_futility_of_human_pride.htm">The Futility of Human Pride</a> Human efforts and pride, symbolized by the fortified city, are ultimately futile without reliance on God. We must place our trust in Him rather than in our own strength. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a> God is sovereign and just in His judgments. The desolation of the city serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from Him. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_restoration.htm">Hope in Restoration</a> Even in judgment, there is hope for restoration. God's ultimate plan includes redemption and renewal for those who turn back to Him. <a href="/topical/s/simplicity_and_innocence.htm">Simplicity and Innocence</a> The image of the calf grazing in the abandoned city suggests a return to simplicity and innocence. We are called to live lives of humility and trust in God. <a href="/topical/r/reflecting_on_our_spiritual_state.htm">Reflecting on Our Spiritual State</a> Just as the city was once fortified but became desolate, we must examine our spiritual lives to ensure we are not relying on false securities.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_27.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 27</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_about_bullying.htm">How can patience strengthen your faith in God's timing?</a> <a href="/q/bible_events'_chronological_order.htm">What is the chronological order of events in the Bible?</a> <a href="/q/what's_the_bible's_view_on_snakes.htm">What is the biblical perspective on snakes?</a> <a href="/q/meaning_of_'the_rocks_will_cry_out'.htm">What is the role of angels?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/27.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) The defenced city shall be desolate . . .--The key to this prediction is found in <a href="/isaiah/25-2.htm" title="For you have made of a city an heap; of a defended city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.">Isaiah 25:2</a>, where the same words occur. The "defenced city" is that of the strangers, who are the enemies of God's people, and its destruction is contrasted with the restoration of the purified Jerusalem of the preceding verse. To see in the "defenced city" which is to be laid low Jerusalem itself is at variance with the natural sequence of thought. The picture of desolation--calves feeding in what had been the busy streets of a populous city--is analogous to that of the "wild beasts of the desert," roaring among the ruins of Babylon, in <a href="/context/isaiah/13-21.htm" title="But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.">Isaiah 13:21-22</a>.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/27.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 10. - Yet the defensed city shall be desolate. Though her punishment is in mercy, as a chastisement which is to purge away her sin, yet Jerusalem shall for a time be desolate, void, without inhabitant, left like a wilderness. Forsaken; or, put away; the same word that is used in ver. 8 of Jerusalem. There shall the calf feed. A familiar image of desolation (comp. <a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm">Isaiah 5:17</a>; <a href="/isaiah/17-2.htm">Isaiah 17:2</a>; <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Isaiah 32:14</a>, etc.). <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/27-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>For כִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction the fortified בְּצוּרָה֙ (bə·ṣū·rāh) Adjective - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1219.htm">Strong's 1219: </a> To cut off, make inaccessible, enclose city עִ֤יר (‘îr) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5892.htm">Strong's 5892: </a> Excitement will be deserted, בָּדָ֔ד (bā·ḏāḏ) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_910.htm">Strong's 910: </a> Isolation, separation a homestead נָוֶ֕ה (nā·weh) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5116.htm">Strong's 5116: </a> Abode of shepherd or flocks, habitation abandoned מְשֻׁלָּ֥ח (mə·šul·lāḥ) Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> To send away, for, out and forsaken וְנֶעֱזָ֖ב (wə·ne·‘ĕ·zāḇ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5800.htm">Strong's 5800: </a> To loosen, relinquish, permit like a wilderness. כַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (kam·miḏ·bār) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech There שָׁ֣ם (šām) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> There, then, thither the calves עֵ֛גֶל (‘ê·ḡel) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5695.htm">Strong's 5695: </a> A, calf, one nearly grown will graze, יִרְעֶ֥ה (yir·‘eh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7462.htm">Strong's 7462: </a> To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with and there וְשָׁ֥ם (wə·šām) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> There, then, thither they will lie down יִרְבָּ֖ץ (yir·bāṣ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7257.htm">Strong's 7257: </a> To crouch, be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed and strip וְכִלָּ֥ה (wə·ḵil·lāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3615.htm">Strong's 3615: </a> To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent its branches {bare}. סְעִפֶֽיהָ׃ (sə·‘i·p̄e·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5585.htm">Strong's 5585: </a> A fissure, a bough <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-10.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city is solitary (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/27-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 27:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 27:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/27-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 27:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 27:11" /></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>