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.
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.
- BSB In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole 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 remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
- Hos 14:5–6I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
- Rom 11:16–26For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
- Isa 54:1–3Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
- Ps 92:13–15Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
- Hos 2:23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
- Zech 2:11And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
- Isa 60:22A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
- Zech 10:8–9I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
- Isa 49:20–23The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
- Jer 30:19And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
- Isa 6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
- Rev 11:15And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
- Gal 3:29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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