Isaiah 44:4
They will grow up like [SIM] grass grows along the water, like [SIM] willow/poplar trees grow well along a riverbank.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 23:40But on the first day, you are permitted to pick fruit from trees. Cut palm fronds/branches and other leafy branches from trees or from bushes that grow by the streams, and make shelters/huts to live in for that week. Then rejoice in my presence for those seven days.
Psalms 1:3They constantly produce/do things that please God just like fruit trees that have been planted along the banks of a stream produce fruit at the right time every year. Like trees that never wither, they succeed in everything that they do.
Psalms 137:1When we had been taken to Babylonia, far from Jerusalem, we sat down by the rivers there, and we cried when we thought about the temple on Zion Hill in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 61:11Just as seeds sown in a garden sprout from the soil and grow [DOU], Yahweh our God will cause people of all nations to act righteously, with the result that they will praise him for doing that.
Acts 2:41So the people who believed Peter’s message were baptized. There were about 3,000 [SYN] who joined the group of believers that day.
Acts 5:14Many more men and women started believing in the Lord Jesus, and they joined the group of believers.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:2-9
Prosperity Foretold; The Supremacy of God. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: 2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water… Read the whole commentary →