Isaiah 1:30

Translations

Modern

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

Traditional

For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

Literal

For you will be like an oak at the withering of its leaf, and a garden for which there is no water.

Latin

…cum fueritis velut quercus defluentibus foliis, et velut hortus absque aqua.

Original

Hebrew

English

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

Notes

Isaiah 1:29–30

The rebels (Isaiah 1:28), who worshipped idols in sacred oak groves and gardens, would become like oaks and gardens suffering from drought. They would miss the life-giving presence of the true God. Those who followed the Canaanite fertility religion of Baal considered gardens and trees sacred, thinking they brought blessings. Instead, they led to spiritual death.

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Jeremiah 17:5–6
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
Matthew 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
Isaiah 5:6
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Ezekiel 17:24
Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
Ezekiel 17:9–10
So you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.
Ezekiel 31:4–18
The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.
Jeremiah 31:12
They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.
Isaiah 58:11
The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

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Gardens: (When Dried Up) the Wicked Idolatry: Warnings Against, and Punishments of The Oak-Tree: (Fading) of the Wicked Under Judgments The Wicked are Compared to Fading Oaks The Wicked are Compared to Garden Without Water Trees: Oak Water: Necessary to Vegetation Wicked (People): Compared With: Fading Oaks Wicked (People): Compared With: Garden Without Water

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