Lexicon :: Strong's H2233 - zeraʿ

Ah, sinful nation,

A people loaded down with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing],

Offspring of evildoers,

Sons who behave corruptly!

They have abandoned (rejected) the LORD,

They have despised the Holy One of Israel [provoking Him to anger],

They have turned away from Him.

“For ten [fn]acres of vineyard will yield [only] [fn]one bath of wine,

And a homer ([fn]six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”

“And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land,

It will again be subject to destruction [consumed and burned],

Like a massive terebinth tree or like an oak

Whose stump remains when it is chopped down.

The holy seed [the elect remnant] is its stump [the substance of Israel].”

“You will not be united with them in burial,

Because you have destroyed your land,

You have slain your people.

May the descendants of evildoers never be named!

In the day that you plant it you carefully fence it in,

And in the morning you bring your seed to blossom;

Yet [promising as it is] the harvest will be a heap [of ruins that passes away]

In the day of sickness and incurable pain.

And they were on great waters.

The grain of the [fn]Shihor, the harvest of the Nile River, was Tyre’s revenue;

And she was the market of nations.

Then He will give you rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread [grain] from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your livestock will graze in large and roomy pastures.

“But you, Israel, My servant,

Jacob whom I have chosen,

The offspring of Abraham My friend,

“Do not fear, for I am with you;

I will bring your offspring from the east [where they are scattered],

And gather you from the west.

‘For I will pour out water on him who is thirsty,

And streams on the dry ground;

I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring

And My blessing on your descendants;

“I have not spoken in secret,

In a corner of a land of darkness;

I did not say to the descendants of Jacob,

‘Seek Me in vain [with no benefit for yourselves].’

I, the LORD, speak righteousness [the truth—trustworthy, a straightforward correlation between deeds and words],

Declaring things that are upright.

“Your offspring would have been like the sand,

And your descendants [in number] like the grains of sand;

Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”

Yet the LORD was [fn]willing

To crush Him, [fn]causing Him to suffer;

If [fn]He would give Himself as a guilt offering [an atonement for sin],

He shall see His [spiritual] offspring,

He shall prolong His days,

And the will (good pleasure) of the LORD shall succeed and prosper in His hand.

“For you will spread out to the right and to the left;

And your descendants will take possession of nations

And will inhabit deserted cities.

“For as the rain and snow come down from heaven,

And do not return there without watering the earth,

Making it bear and sprout,

And providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress [raised in deception and superstition],

Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit which is upon you [writing the law of God on the heart], and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouths of your [true, spiritual] [fn]children, nor from the mouth of your children’s children,” says the LORD, “from now and forever.”

Then their offspring will be known among the nations,

And their descendants among the peoples.

All who see them [in their prosperity] will recognize and acknowledge them

That they are the people whom the LORD has blessed.

“I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,

And an heir of My mountains from Judah;

Even My chosen ones shall inherit it,

And My servants will live there.

“For just as the new heavens and the new earth

Which I make will remain and endure before Me,” declares the LORD,

“So your offspring and your name will remain and endure.