Bible Strands
Isaiah 27:6
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Jacob and Israel with a prophetic declaration of future restoration, situated between an invitation to seek peace (27:5) and a rhetorical question contrasting that coming blessing with past judgment (27:7).
The words — יַשְׁרֵ֣שׁ (yash.Resh) means it will take root, and יָצִ֥יץ (ya.Tzitz) means it will blossom, describing the nation’s agricultural revival.
The thread — This rooting and fruiting motif appears in Isaiah 37:31, Hosea 14:5, and Romans 11:16, where agricultural imagery tracks covenant faithfulness and spiritual vitality.
Why it lands — The text asserts a definite future expansion of Israel that demands recognition of God’s timing and the tangible results of covenant restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 37:31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- Hosea 14:5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
- Romans 11:16 If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
- Psalms 92:13 Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
- Isaiah 54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
- Hosea 2:23 And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
- Zechariah 2:11 “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
- Isaiah 60:22 The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.
- Jeremiah 30:19 Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
- Zechariah 10:8 I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.