Lexicon :: Strong's H2233 - zeraʿ

Oh sinful nation,

people weighed down with iniquity,

brood of evildoers,

depraved children!

They have abandoned the LORD;

they have despised the Holy One of Israel;

they have turned their backs on him.

For a ten-acre[fn] vineyard will yield

only six gallons of wine,[fn]

and ten bushels[fn] of seed will yield

only one bushel of grain.[fn]

Though a tenth will remain in the land,

it will be burned again.

Like the terebinth or the oak

that leaves a stump when felled,

the holy seed is the stump.

You will not join them in burial,

because you destroyed your land

and slaughtered your own people.

The offspring of evildoers

will never be mentioned again.

On the day that you plant,

you will help them to grow,

and in the morning

you will help your seed to sprout,

but the harvest will vanish

on the day of disease and incurable pain.

over deep water.

Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor —

the harvest of the Nile.

She was the merchant among the nations.

Then he will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

But you, Israel, my servant,

Jacob, whom I have chosen,

descendant of Abraham, my friend —

“Do not fear, for I am with you;

I will bring your descendants from the east,

and gather you from the west.

“For I will pour water on the thirsty land

and streams on the dry ground;

I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants

and my blessing on your offspring.

“I have not spoken in secret,

somewhere in a land of darkness.

I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:

Seek me in a wasteland.

I am the LORD, who speaks righteously,

who declares what is right.

All the descendants of Israel

will be justified and boast in the LORD.

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,

and the offspring of your body like its grains; 

their name would not be cut off

or eliminated from my presence.

Yet the LORD was pleased to crush him severely.[fn]

When[fn] you make him a guilt offering,

he will see his seed, he will prolong his days,

and by his hand, the LORD’s pleasure will be accomplished.

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

and your descendants will dispossess nations

and inhabit the desolate cities.

“For just as rain and snow fall from heaven

and do not return there

without saturating the earth

and making it germinate and sprout,

and providing seed to sow

and food to eat,

But come here,

you witch’s sons,

offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute![fn]

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and forever,” says the LORD.

Their descendants will be known among the nations,

and their posterity among the peoples.

All who see them will recognize

that they are a people the LORD has blessed.

“I will produce descendants from Jacob,

and heirs to my mountains from Judah;

my chosen ones will possess it,

and my servants will dwell there.

“They will not labor without success

or bear children destined for disaster,

for they will be a people blessed by the LORD

along with their descendants.

“For just as the new heavens and the new earth,

which I will make,

will remain before me” —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

“so your offspring and your name will remain.