Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds for their glory is spoiled a voice of the roaring of young lions for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

They have made it a desolation it mourns to me, being desolate the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

When the people saw him, they praised their god for they said, Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.

A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

And when the people saw him, they praised their god for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.

A fire devoureth before them and behind them a flame burneth the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness yea, and nothing shall escape them.

to take the spoil and to take the prey to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.

For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

To take a spoil, and to take a prey to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

The village also has several khirbas including Khirbat al Tahuna, where the ruins of a building constructed of ashlars (squared stone masonry) and the foundations of other buildings.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Thus says Yahweh Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal,

Thus saith the LORD Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

This perspective is not simply rooted in economics, even if today a large proportion of older Americans are rushing back to work as the downturn wrecks their retirement plans.