Parallel Verses

Amplified


For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers and dies
And like a garden that has no water.

New American Standard Bible

For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away
Or as a garden that has no water.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

You'll be like an oak whose leaf is withering, like an unwatered garden.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Bible in Basic English

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

For ye shall be as an oak the leaf withering, and as a garden which there no water to it.

King James 2000

For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.

Modern King James verseion

For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye shall be as an oak whose leaves are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moistness.

NET Bible

For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither, like an orchard that is unwatered.

New Heart English Bible

For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

The Emphasized Bible

For ye shall be as an oak with its leaf faded, And as a garden that hath no, water;

Webster

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

World English Bible

For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

Youngs Literal Translation

For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For ye shall be as an oak
אלה 
'elah 
Usage: 13

עלה 
`aleh 
Usage: 18

and as a garden
גּנּה 
Gannah 
Usage: 12

References

Context Readings

Purification Of Jerusalem

29
For you will be ashamed [of the degradation] of the oaks in which you took [idolatrous] pleasure,
And you will be ashamed of the gardens [of passion] which you have chosen [for pagan worship].
30 
For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers and dies
And like a garden that has no water.
31
The strong man will become tinder,
And his work a spark.
So both will burn together
And there will be none to quench them.



Cross References

Isaiah 5:6


“I will turn it into a wasteland;
It will not be pruned or cultivated,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Isaiah 58:11


“And the Lord will continually guide you,
And satisfy your soul in scorched and dry places,
And give strength to your bones;
And you will be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

Jeremiah 17:5-6


Thus says the Lord,
“Cursed is the man who trusts in and relies on mankind,
Making [weak, faulty human] flesh his strength,
And whose mind and heart turn away from the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:12


“They will come and sing aloud and shout for joy on the height of Zion,
And will be radiant [with joy] over the goodness of the Lord
For the grain, for the new wine, for the oil,
And for the young of the flock and the herd.
And their life will be like a watered garden,
And they shall never sorrow or languish again.

Ezekiel 17:9-10

Thus says the Lord God, ‘Ask, “Will it thrive? Will he (Nebuchadnezzar) not uproot it and strip off its fruit so that all its sprouting leaves will wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to uproot it [ending Israel’s national existence].

Ezekiel 17:24

All the trees of the field will know that I the Lord bring down the tall tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will fulfill it.”

Ezekiel 31:4-18


‘The waters nourished it, the deep [underground waters] made it grow tall.
Its rivers ran all around the place where it was planted,
Sending out its streams to all the trees (other nations) of the field.

Matthew 21:19

Seeing a lone fig tree at the roadside, He went to it and found nothing but leaves on it; and He said to it, “Never again will fruit come from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.

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