Parallel Verses

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.

Amplified


For you will be like an oak whose leaf withers and dies
And like a garden that has 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 You will be ashamed of the oaks that you wanted to worship. You will be embarrassed by the garden that you have chosen for your gods. 30 For you will be like an oak whose leaf fades away
Or as a garden that has no water.
31 Strong people will become tinder for a fire. Their work will be the spark. Both of them will burn together. There will be no one to put out the fire.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:6

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor cultivated. It will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Isaiah 58:11

Jehovah will continually guide you. He will satisfy your desire in scorched places and give strength to your bones. You will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

Jeremiah 17:5-6

This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.

Jeremiah 31:12

They will come and shout for joy on top of Mount Zion. They will stream to it to enjoy Jehovah's blessings: fresh grain, new wine, olive oil, lambs and calves. Their lives will be like well-watered gardens, and they will never suffer again.

Ezekiel 17:9-10

Say, 'The Lord Jehovah says: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it and all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.

Ezekiel 17:24

Every tree in the forest will know that I, Jehovah, can bring down tall trees and help short ones grow. I dry up green trees and make dry ones green. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will keep my word.'

Ezekiel 31:4-18

The waters made it grow, the deep made it high. With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place, and sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

Matthew 21:19

He saw a fig tree along the side of the road. He went to it and saw nothing on it but leaves. He told it: You will not bare fruit from this time forward, forever. Immediately the fig tree became dry and dead.

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