But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
Parallel translations
- KJV But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
- BSB But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
- NKJV But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come.
- NASB But as for you, mountains of Israel, you will grow your branches and bear fruit for My people Israel; for they are about to come.
- NLT “But the mountains of Israel will produce heavy crops of fruit for my people—for they will be coming home again soon!
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Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 27:6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
- Heb 10:37“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.
- Ezek 34:26–29I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
- Ezek 17:23I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.
- Ps 85:12Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
- Hos 2:21–23It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
- Isa 4:2In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
- Isa 30:23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
- Jas 5:8–9You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
- Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
- Ezek 12:25For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
- Ps 67:6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
- Amos 9:13–15“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
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