“‘Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- BSB Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
- NKJV ‘Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline, Planted by the waters, Fruitful and full of branches Because of many waters.
- NASB ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and thick with branches Because of abundant waters.
- NLT “Your mother was like a vine planted by the water’s edge. It had lush, green foliage because of the abundant water.
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- Ps 80:8–11You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
- Deut 8:7For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;
- Num 24:6–7As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
- Matt 21:33–41“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
- Ezek 17:6It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.
- Ezek 15:2–8“Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?
- Hos 2:2Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
- Ps 89:25–29I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
- Isa 5:1–4Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
- Deut 8:9a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
- Ezek 19:2and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
- Hos 2:5For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
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