In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
Parallel translations
- WEB In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
- KJV He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
- NKJV Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the face of the world with fruit.
- NASB In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with fruit.
- NLT The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit!
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Quick answer
God promises that restored Israel will take root, blossom, and fill the world with fruit.
Overview
The future flourishing of Jacob is pictured as a plant taking root and bearing fruit that covers the earth. This points to the worldwide blessing that comes through God's covenant people. It is fulfilled as the gospel goes out from Israel through Christ, filling the world with the fruit of redeemed nations.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 37:31And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- Hos 14:5–6I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
- Rom 11:16–26If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
- Isa 54:1–3“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
- Ps 92:13–15Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
- Hos 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
- Zech 2:11“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
- Isa 60:22The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.
- Zech 10:8–9I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.
- Isa 49:20–23Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’
- Jer 30:19Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
- Isa 6:13And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
- Phil 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
- Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- Gal 3:29And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
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