Isaiah 44:4 They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.

English Standard Version
They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

New American Standard Bible
And they will spring up among the grass Like poplars by streams of water.'

King James Bible
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will sprout among the grass like poplars by flowing streams.

International Standard Version
They'll spring up as among the green grass, like willows by flowing streams.

American Standard Version
and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.

Darby Bible Translation
And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by streams of water.

Cross References

Leviticus 23:40
And you shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

Job 5:25
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Job 40:22
The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

Psalm 137:2
We hanged our harps on the willows in the middle thereof.

Isaiah 48:19
Your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Ezekiel 17:5
He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

44:1-8 Israel is here called Jeshurun, which means the upright one. Such only are Israelites indeed, in whom is no guile. Those that serve God he will own. He will help them over difficulties, and in their services. Water is the emblem of the Holy Spirit; as water refreshes, cleanses, and makes the earth fruitful, so do his influences the soul. This gift of the Holy Ghost is the great blessing, the plentiful pouring out of which God kept for the latter days. Where God gives his Spirit, he will give all other blessings. Hereby shall be a great increase of the church; thus it shall be spread to distant places. Was there any other Rock, or Protector, that could defend them? None besides could foretell these things to come, of which God by his prophets gave notice. All was set in order in the Divine predictions, as well as in the Divine purposes. Could any other have done so? Who can compare with Israel's Redeemer and King?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. they—thy "seed" and "offspring" (Isa 44:3).

as among—needlessly inserted in English Version. Rather, "The seed shall spring up as willows among the grass beside canals of water" [Horsley]. Or, "They shall spring up among the grass (that is, luxuriantly; for what grows in the midst of grass grows luxuriantly) as willows by the water-courses," which makes the parallel clauses better balanced [Maurer].