The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth 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.
- 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.
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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
Cross-references · 15
- Isa 37:31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- Hos 14:5–6I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
- Rom 11:16–26If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
- Isa 54:1–3“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 92:13–15They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
- Hos 2:23I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”
- Zech 2:11Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
- Isa 60:22The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”
- Zech 10:8–9I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased.
- Isa 49:20–23The children of your bereavement will say in your ears, ‘This place is too small for me. Give me a place to live in.’
- Jer 30:19Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.
- Isa 6:13If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; so the holy seed is its stock.”
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
- Rev 11:15The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
- Gal 3:29If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
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