Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
When the tender grass springs out of the earth,
Through sunshine after rain.’

King James Version

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

Holman Bible

is like the morning light when the sun rises
on a cloudless morning,
the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”

International Standard Version

He is like dawn's first light, like bright sun blazing on a cloudless morning, glistening on grassland that flourishes after a rain shower.

A Conservative Version

[he shall be] as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, [when] the tender grass [springs] out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.

American Standard Version

He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass'springeth out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.

Amplified


Is like the morning light when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
When the fresh grass springs out of the earth
Through sunshine after rain.’

Bible in Basic English

It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth

Darby Translation

And he shall be as the light or the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.

Julia Smith Translation

And as the light of the morning the sun will rise: the morning not dense; from the shining of the rain bringing forth herbage from the earth.

King James 2000

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Like the light of [the] morning when the sun rises, shining with no clouds, [bringing] vegetation from the earth apart from rain.'

Modern King James verseion

is as the light of the morning, as the sun rises, a morning without clouds. The tender grass springs out of the earth through shining after rain.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

shall be as the morning light, when the sun shineth in a morning in which are no clouds to let the brightness; and as the grass of the earth is by the virtue of the rain.'

NET Bible

is like the light of morning when the sun comes up, a morning in which there are no clouds. He is like the brightness after rain that produces grass from the earth.

New Heart English Bible

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.'

The Emphasized Bible

Is even as the light of the morning when ariseth the sun, - A morning, without clouds, As from brightness, and from rain, the fresh shoots out of the earth.

Webster

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

World English Bible

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.'

Youngs Literal Translation

And as the light of morning he riseth, A morning sun -- no clouds! By the shining, by the rain, Tender grass of the earth!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he shall be as the light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

of the morning
בּקר 
Boqer 
Usage: 214

when the sun
שׁמשׁ 
Shemesh 
Usage: 134

זרח 
Zarach 
arise, rise, rise up, shine, up
Usage: 18

בּקר 
Boqer 
Usage: 214


Usage: 0

עב 
`ab 
Usage: 32

as the tender grass
דּשׁא 
Deshe' 
Usage: 15

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

נגהּ 
Nogahh 
Usage: 19

References

Hastings

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Context Readings

David Extols Yahweh

3 “The God of Israel said,
The Rock of Israel spoke to me,
He who rules over men righteously,
Who rules in the fear of God,
4 Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
When the tender grass springs out of the earth,
Through sunshine after rain.’
5 “Truly is not my house so with God?
For He has made an everlasting covenant with me,
Ordered in all things, and secured;
For all my salvation and all my desire,
Will He not indeed make it grow?

Cross References

Judges 5:31

Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord;
But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”
And the land was undisturbed for forty years.

Psalm 72:6

May he come down like rain upon the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

Psalm 89:36

“His descendants shall endure forever
And his throne as the sun before Me.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.

Psalm 110:3

Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power;
In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,
Your youth are to You as the dew.

Isaiah 4:2

In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel.

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine; for your light has come,
And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

Isaiah 60:3

Nations will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.

Isaiah 60:18-20

Violence will not be heard again in your land,
Nor devastation or destruction within your borders;
But you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise.

Hosea 6:3

“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

Micah 5:7

Then the remnant of Jacob
Will be among many peoples
Like dew from the Lord,
Like showers on vegetation
Which do not wait for man
Or delay for the sons of men.

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.

Luke 1:78-79

Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,

John 1:7

He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.

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