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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 [saith] Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
 10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah. (Isa. 5:9‑10)
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Isa. 6:11‑12• 11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted for want of an inhabitant, and the houses for want of man, and the land be utter desolation;
 12and Jehovah have removed men far away, and have multiplied forsaking's in the midst of the land. (Isa. 6:11‑12)
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Isa. 24:1‑3,12• 1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth 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.
 12In the city remaineth desolation, 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; the hill and watch-tower shall be dens forever, 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 her Sabbaths all the days of her desolation, when ye [are] in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest and enjoy her Sabbaths.
 35All the days of the desolation it shall rest; in which it rested not on your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. (Lev. 26:33‑35)
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Deut. 29:23• 23{i}that 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:{/i} (Deut. 29:23)
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2 Chron. 36:19‑21• 19{i}And 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.{/i}
 20{i}And 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;{/i}
 21{i}to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbath,{/i} for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath to fulfil seventy years. (2 Chron. 36:19‑21)
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Jer. 25:11• 11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and 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, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will 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 by [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 were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings shall become briars and thorns.
 24With arrows and with bow shall they come thither, because the whole land shall become briars and thorns.
 25And all the hills that were hoed with the hoe, thither they will not come for fear of briars and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep. (Isa. 7:23‑25)
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Hos. 3:4• 4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without 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 plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures; (Isa. 30:23)
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Deut. 28:23‑24• 23{i}And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.{/i}
 24{i}Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed.{/i} (Deut. 28:23‑24)
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Amos 4:7• 7And also I 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 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 every one that is left of all the nations which come against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
 17And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. (Zech. 14:16‑17)
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Heb. 6:6‑8• 6and have fallen away, while for themselves crucifying and making a show of the Son of God.
 7For ground that drank the rain coming oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for those for whose sake also it is tilled, participateth in blessing from God;
 8but if bringing forth thorns and briars, [is] worthless and near a curse, whose end [is] for burning. (Heb. 6:6‑8)
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Rev. 11:6• 6These have authority to shut the heaven that no rain fall during the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague as often as they will. (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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and I will lay it waste—it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.