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Isaiah 1:29-31
Good News Translation
Isaiah 1:29-31
Good News Translation
29 You will be sorry that you ever worshiped trees and planted sacred gardens.[a] 30 You will wither like a dying oak, like a garden that no one waters. 31 Just as straw is set on fire by a spark, so powerful people will be destroyed by their own evil deeds, and no one will be able to stop the destruction.
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- Isaiah 1:29 People believed that dedicating a garden to a fertility god would cause him to bless their crops.
Isaiah 1:29-31
New International Version
Isaiah 1:29-31
New International Version
29 “You will be ashamed(A) because of the sacred oaks(B)
in which you have delighted;
you will be disgraced because of the gardens(C)
that you have chosen.
30 You will be like an oak with fading leaves,(D)
like a garden without water.
31 The mighty man will become tinder
and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
with no one to quench the fire.(E)”
Isaiah 1:29-31
King James Version
Isaiah 1:29-31
King James Version
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
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