But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- 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.
- 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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Quick answer
The mountains of Israel will again grow branches and bear fruit for God's people, who are soon to return. Restoration is near at hand.
Overview
Addressing the land directly, God promises renewed fertility 'for my people Israel,' 'for they are at hand to come.' The barren hills will flourish again as the exiles return. This reverses the desolation and signals that the promise is imminent, not distant. The fruitful land foreshadows the abundant life God grants His people in the renewed creation through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Isa 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
- Heb 10:37For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.
- Ezek 34:26–29I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
- Ezek 17:23I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.
- Ps 85:12The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
- Hos 2:21–23“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.
- Isa 4:2On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
- Isa 30:23Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
- Jas 5:8–9You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
- Ezek 12:25because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass, declares the Lord GOD.’”
- Ps 67:6The earth has yielded its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.
- Amos 9:13–15“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
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