Isaiah 6:13

Hope Israel and the nations

¹¹ Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

¹² until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.

And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
KJV: But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
WEB: If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak whose stump remains when they are cut down, so the holy seed is its stump.”
ASV: And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
DARBY: But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk [remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.
BLB: And still [are] in it a tenth, and will it return and be for burning, like the terebinth and oak that in falling [is] a stump in them. The seed of holiness [is] its stump.”

ÅB: Og er det enda en tiendedel igjen i det, så skal også den bli fortæret. Men slik som det blir en stubb igjen av terebinten og eken når de felles, så skal en hellig sæd være den stubb som blir igjen av folket.
OTB: Og selv om en tiendedel blir igjen i det, skal det igjen bli utsatt for brenning, som en terebinth eller en eik hvis stubb står igjen når den er felt. Den hellige sæd er dens stubb."
B1930: Og er det ennu en tiendedel igjen i det, så skal også den bli fortæret. Men likesom det blir en stubb igjen av terebinten og eken når de felles, så skal en hellig sæd være den stubb som blir igjen av folket.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Job 14:7–9
For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
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Romans 11:5–6
In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
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Genesis 22:18
And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
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Romans 11:16–29
If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
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Isaiah 65:8–9
This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.
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Galatians 3:28–29
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Isaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
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Galatians 3:16–19
The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.
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