And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
- 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 set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
- Ezek 19:10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
- Jer 52:27–31And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
- Ps 68:6God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry 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 took him in the eighth year of his reign.
- Ps 63:1O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
- Ezek 20:35And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
- Deut 28:47–48Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
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