Isaiah 36:17
What does Isaiah 36:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 36:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Context
v.16Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
v.17This passage
v.18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 20:17
He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
- 2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
- Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
- 2 Kings 18:9
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
- Deuteronomy 8:7
For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
- Exodus 3:8
and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
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