Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
Parallel translations
- KJV And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
- BSB Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
- NKJV And now she is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
- NASB ‘And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
- NLT Now the vine is transplanted to the wilderness, where the ground is hard and dry.
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- Hos 2:3Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
- Ezek 19:10“‘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.
- Jer 52:27–31The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
- Ps 68:6God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- 2 Kgs 24:12–16and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.
- Ps 63:1A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
- Ezek 20:35I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
- Deut 28:47–48Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
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