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Isaiah 5

Isa. 5:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And I will lay
shiyth (Hebrew #7896)
to place (in a very wide application)
KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take.
Pronounce: sheeth
Origin: a primitive root
it waste
bathah (Hebrew #1326)
desolation
KJV usage: waste.
Pronounce: baw-thaw'
Origin: probably an orthographical variation for 1327
: it shall not be pruned
zamar (Hebrew #2168)
to trim (a vine)
KJV usage: prune.
Pronounce: zaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2167, 5568, 6785)
, nor digged
`adar (Hebrew #5737)
to arrange, as a battle, a vineyard (to hoe); hence, to muster and so to miss (or find wanting)
KJV usage: dig, fail, keep (rank), lack.
Pronounce: aw-dar'
Origin: a primitive root
; but there shall come up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
briers
shamiyr (Hebrew #8068)
a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond
KJV usage: adamant (stone), brier, diamond.
Pronounce: shaw-meer'
Origin: from 8104 in the original sense of pricking
and thorns
shayith (Hebrew #7898)
scrub or trash, i.e. wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field)
KJV usage: thorns.
Pronounce: shah'-yith
Origin: from 7896
: I will also command
tsavah (Hebrew #6680)
(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
KJV usage: appoint, (for-)bid, (give a) charge, (give a, give in, send with) command(-er, -ment), send a messenger, put, (set) in order.
Pronounce: tsaw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the clouds
`ab (Hebrew #5645)
from 5743; properly, an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chron. 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse
KJV usage: clay, (thick) cloud, X thick, thicket. Compare 5672.
Pronounce: awb
Origin: (masculine and feminine)
that they rain
matar (Hebrew #4305)
to rain
KJV usage: (cause to) rain (upon).
Pronounce: maw-tar'
Origin: a primitive root
no rain
matar (Hebrew #4306)
rain
KJV usage: rain.
Pronounce: maw-tawr'
Origin: from 4305
upon it.

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Briers,
Cloud,
Husbandman,
Rain,
Thorns; Thistles

Cross References

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I will lay.
Isa. 5:9‑10• 9In mine ears Jehovah of hosts hath said, Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.
 10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah. (Isa. 5:9‑10)
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Isa. 6:11‑12• 11And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,
 12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land. (Isa. 6:11‑12)
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Isa. 24:1‑3,12• 1Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
 2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
 3The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
 12desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten,--a ruin. (Isa. 24:1‑3,12)
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Isa. 32:13‑14• 13Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles and briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
 14For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; (Isa. 32:13‑14)
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Lev. 26:33‑35• 33And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.
 34Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, when ye are in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
 35All the days of the desolation it shall rest, the days in which it did not rest on your sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein. (Lev. 26:33‑35)
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Deut. 29:23• 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury: (Deut. 29:23)
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2 Chron. 36:19‑21• 19And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all the palaces thereof with fire, and all the precious vessels thereof were given up to destruction.
 20And them that had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they became servants to him and his sons, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia;
 21to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years. (2 Chron. 36:19‑21)
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Jer. 25:11• 11And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. (Jer. 25:11)
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Jer. 45:4• 4Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, what I have built do I overthrow, and what I have planted I pluck up, even this whole land. (Jer. 45:4)
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Luke 21:24• 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
it shall.
Isa. 7:23‑25• 23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:
 24with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns.
 25And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe--thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle. (Isa. 7:23‑25)
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Hos. 3:4• 4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without statue, and without ephod and teraphim. (Hos. 3:4)
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Isa. 30:23• 23And he will give the rain of thy seed with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the produce of the ground, and it shall be fat and rich. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures; (Isa. 30:23)
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Deut. 28:23‑24• 23And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.
 24Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed. (Deut. 28:23‑24)
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Amos 4:7• 7And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece of land was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. (Amos 4:7)
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Zech. 14:16‑17• 16And it shall come to pass, that all that are left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.
 17And it shall be, that whoso goeth not up of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them shall be no rain. (Zech. 14:16‑17)
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Heb. 6:6‑8• 6and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.
 7For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;
 8but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned. (Heb. 6:6‑8)
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Rev. 11:6• 6These have power to shut the heaven that no rain may fall during the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth as often as they will with every plague. (Rev. 11:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and I will make it a waste—it shall not be pruned nor cultivatedb, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

JND Translation Notes

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b
Or "hoed." the word apparently means "to gather the earth about the roots, while removing weeds." see ch. 7.25.