◄ Isaiah 1:30 ►
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Good News Translation
You will wither like a dying oak, like a garden that no one waters.

New Revised Standard Version
For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.

Contemporary English Version
You will be like a grove of trees dying in a drought.

New American Bible
You shall become like a terebinth whose leaves wither, like a garden that has no water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.

ye shall be

Isaiah 5:6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

Jeremiah 17:5,6 Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 17:9,10,24 Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither: and this without a strong arm, or many people to pluck it up by the root? . . .

Matthew 21:19 And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he saith to it: May no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.

garden

Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.

Jeremiah 31:12 And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.

Ezekiel 31:4 The waters nourished him, the deep set him tip on high, the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent, forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.

Context
The Corruption of Zion
…29For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen. 30When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.31And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.…
Cross References
Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

Isaiah 64:6
And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Isaiah 1:29
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