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Isaiah 32:12 Cross-References
Explore 7 cross-references for Isaiah 32:12 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Isaiah chapter 32 verse 12 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. pleasant: Heb. fields of desire”
Isaiah 32:12 (KJV)
Commentary on Isaiah 32:12
They shall lament for the teats (עַל־שָׁדַיִם סֹפְדִים, al-shadayim sofdim)—mourning over שָׁדַיִם (shadayim, breasts, teats), using the verb סָפַד (safad, lament, mourn, beat the breast). For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine (עַל־שְׂדֵי־חֶמֶד עַל־גֶּפֶן פֹּרִיָּה, al-sedey-chemed al-gefen poriyah)—for fields of חֶמֶד (chemed, delight, pleasantness) and פֹּרִיָּה (poriyah, fruitful) גֶּפֶן (gefen, vine).The breast-beating gesture (סֹפְדִים, sofdim) was ancient mourning practice (Nahum 2:7, Luke 23:48). The 'teats' may reference nursing mothers unable to feed children due to famine, o...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Isaiah 32:12
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“she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves”
“that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them”
“my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth”
“where you go over to possess it”
“a land of brooks of water”
“to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them”
“they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel”