Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 17 connects to 10 cross-references. The oracle against Damascus announces it will cease to be a city and become a heap of ruins. Israel's glory will waste away in the same judgment. Yet a remnant will look to its Maker and not to altars. Nations …
Other Translations
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
Cross References
And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the …
And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount …
And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is …
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines …
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers …
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of …
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, …