Isaiah 1:30 “For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a gard…”

Isaiah 1:30

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, 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.

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Cross references

“ye shall be”

Isaiah 5:6 Ezekiel 17:24 Matthew 21:19 Jeremiah 17:5 Jeremiah 17:6 Ezekiel 17:9

Isaiah 5:6 · BSB

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 · BSB

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…

Matthew 21:19 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 17:5 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Ezekiel 17:9 · BSB

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 pe…

“garden”

Isaiah 58:11 Jeremiah 31:12 Ezekiel 31:4–18

Isaiah 58:11 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 31:12 · BSB

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 garde…

Ezekiel 31:4–18 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

31The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.

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