Isaiah 32:12

NETBible

Mourn over the field, 1  over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

NIV ©

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines

NASB ©

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

NLT ©

Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms that will soon be gone, and for those fruitful vines of other years.

MSG ©

Shed honest tears for the lost harvest, the failed vintage.

BBE ©

Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

NRSV ©

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

NKJV ©

People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

KJV
They shall lament
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{pleasant...: Heb. fields of desire}
NASB ©
Beat
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for the pleasant
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fields
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, for the fruitful
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vine
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LXXM
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CONJ
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PREP
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mastwn
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N-GPM
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V-PMD-2P
apo
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PREP
agrou
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N-GSM
epiyumhmatov {N-GSN} kai
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CONJ
ampelou
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N-GSF
genhmatov {N-GSN}
NET [draft] ITL
Mourn
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the field
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, over
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the delightful
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fields
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and the fruitful
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vine
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!
HEBREW
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dmx
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ydv
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Mydpo
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Myds
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NETBible

Mourn over the field, 1  over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

NET Notes

1 tc The Hebrew text has “over mourning breasts.” The reference to “breasts” would make sense in light of v. 11, which refers to the practice of women baring their breasts as a sign of sorrow (see J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 1:585). However, one expects the preposition עַל (’al) to introduce the source or reason for mourning (see vv. 12b-13a) and the participle סֹפְדִים (sofedim, “mourning”) seems odd modifying “breasts.” The translation above assumes a twofold emendation: (1) שָׁדַיִם (shadayim, “breasts”) is emended to [ם]שָׂדַי (saday[m], “field,” a term that also appears in Isa 56:9). The final mem (ם) would be enclitic in this case, not a plural indicator. (The Hebrew noun שָׂדֶה (sadeh, “field”) forms its plural with an וֹת- [-ot] ending). (2) The plural participle סֹפְדִים is emended to סְפֹדָה (sÿfodah), a lengthened imperatival form, meaning “mourn.” For an overview of various suggestions that have been made for this difficult line, see Oswalt, 586, n. 12).