You prepared room for it, And caused it to take deep root, And it filled the land.
Parallel translations
- WEB You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
- KJV Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
- BSB You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.
- NASB You cleared the ground before it, And it took deep root and filled the land.
- NLT You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land.
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Quick answer
God prepared the ground so the vine took deep root and filled the land. It celebrates how God established and prospered Israel.
Overview
Continuing the vine metaphor, this verse describes God's careful cultivation that allowed Israel to flourish and spread throughout Canaan. It recalls the fruitfulness of the nation under God's blessing. The memory of past flourishing sharpens the grief over present ruin and fuels the prayer for renewed favor.
Cross-references & the web
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- Josh 24:12I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
- Exod 23:28–30I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
- 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.
- Isa 37:31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- 1 Chr 27:23–24But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
- 1 Kgs 4:20Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
- Neh 9:22–25Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- 1 Chr 21:5Joab gave up the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
- Jer 12:2You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
- Ps 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
- 1 Kgs 4:25Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
- Josh 23:13–15know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
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