Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
Note Or pine or juniper or fir
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for the Lord, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- of the thorn
- Isaiah 11:6–9; Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 60:13, 21; Isaiah 61:3; Micah 7:4; Romans 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:9–11; 2 Corinthians 5:17
- for a
- Isaiah 43:21; Jeremiah 13:11; Jeremiah 33:9; Luke 2:14; John 15:8; Ephesians 3:20, 21; 1 Peter 2:9, 10; 1 Peter 4:11
- an everlasting
- Isaiah 54:10; Jeremiah 50:5