And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
Parallel translations
- WEB The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- KJV And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- NKJV And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, And bear fruit upward.
- NASB The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
- NLT And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the siege, will put roots down in your own soil and will grow up and flourish.
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Quick answer
The surviving remnant of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. God promises renewed life and growth for his preserved people.
Overview
The agricultural image of roots and fruit symbolizes Judah's revival after the Assyrian threat. The 'remnant' motif assures that God preserves a people for himself through judgment. This rooted, fruitful growth pictures the spiritual flourishing God grants to those he saves. It points forward to the fruitful people of God gathered in Christ (John 15).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
- 2 Kgs 19:4Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- 2 Chr 32:22–23So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hands of King Sennacherib of Assyria and all the others, and He gave them rest on every side.
- Isa 10:20–22On 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.
- Isa 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
- Isa 37:31–32And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- Ps 80:9You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.
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Amid the long decline toward exile, the promise to David's house refuses to die; the flickering lamp kept burning anticipates the coming King who will not fail or be cut off.
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