Isaiah 44:4
2 This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
5 One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take the name of Israel.”
6 Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
- KJV
- And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
- WEB
- and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
- ASV
- and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
- DARBY
- And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.
- BLB
- And they will sprout up among the grass, like willows by streams of water.
- ÅB
- så de vokser opp som iblant gress, som piletrær ved bekkene.
- OTB
- De skal vokse opp blant gresset, som popler ved rennende bekker.
- B1930
- så de vokser op som iblandt gress, som piletrær ved bekkene.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 58:11
The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
Read in contextPsalms 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
Read in contextPsalms 92:13–15
Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
Read in contextEzekiel 17:5
He took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it by abundant waters and set it out like a willow.
Read in contextPsalms 137:1–2
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Read in contextActs 4:4
But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
Read in contextActs 5:14
Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.
Read in contextActs 2:41–47
Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
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