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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Quick answer
The vine is now replanted in a dry and barren wilderness. It pictures Judah transplanted into the desolation of exile.
Overview
Once nourished by 'many waters,' the vine is now set in a parched land, an image of the people carried into Babylonian captivity. The contrast underscores the loss of God's evident blessing and the bitterness of exile. Yet replanting, even in the wilderness, leaves open the hope that God may again cause His people to take root and grow.
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Cross-references · 8
- 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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