Isaiah 37:31
29 Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
30 And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
32 For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
33 So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- KJV
- And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
- WEB
- The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- ASV
- And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- DARBY
- And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;
- BLB
- And ] again will the surivors of the house of Judah, those remaining, take root beneath and produce fruit above.
- ÅB
- Og den rest som har sloppet unna av Judas hus, skal skyte dypere rot nedentil og bære frukt oventil.
- OTB
- Resten av Judas hus skal igjen slå rot nedenfor og bære frukt ovenfor.
- B1930
- Og den rest som har sloppet unda av Judas hus, skal skyte dypere rot nedentil og bære frukt oventil.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 27:6
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
Read in context2 Kings 19:30–31
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
Read in contextPsalms 80:9
You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
Read in contextRomans 11:5
In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
Read in contextRomans 9:27
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:20–22
On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Read in contextJeremiah 44:28
Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!
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