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12 mourning over breasts,
    over fields of delight,
over the fruitful vine,
13     over the soil of my people.
It goes up in thorns[a] and briers,[b]
    indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city.
14 For the palace will be forsaken,
    the crowded city[c] deserted;
the hill and the watchtower will become[d] a cave forever,
    the joy of wild asses, a pasture for[e] flocks.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 32:13 Hebrew “thorn”
  2. Isaiah 32:13 Hebrew “brier”
  3. Isaiah 32:14 Literally “crowd of the city”
  4. Isaiah 32:14 The Hebrew text has “for the benefit of” following “become”
  5. Isaiah 32:14 Literally “of”