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12 For people will be beating their breasts
    in mourning[a] over the pleasant fields,
        over the fruitful vines,
13 and over the land of my people
    overgrown with thorns and[b] briers—
yes, over all the houses of merriment
    and over this city of revelry.

14 “For the palace will be abandoned,
    the noisy city deserted;
the citadel and watchtower
    will become barren wastes forever,
the delight of wild donkeys,
    and a pasture for[c] flocks,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:12 1QIsaa MT lack mourning
  2. Isaiah 32:13 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks and
  3. Isaiah 32:14 So 1QIsaa; MT reads of; cf. LXX