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Isaiah 41:19

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

KJV

Dabo in solitudinem cedrum, et spinam, et myrtum, et lignum olivæ ; ponam in deserto abietem, ulmum, et buxum simul :

Vulgate

θήσω εἰς τὴν ἄνυδρον γῆν κέδρον καὶ πύξον, μυρσίνην καὶ κυπάρισσον καὶ λεύκην·

LXX

I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:

ASV

אֶתֵּ֤ן בַּ/מִּדְבָּר֙ אֶ֣רֶז שִׁטָּ֔ה וַ/הֲדַ֖ס וְ/עֵ֣ץ שָׁ֑מֶן אָשִׂ֣ים בָּ/עֲרָבָ֗ה בְּר֛וֹשׁ תִּדְהָ֥ר וּ/תְאַשּׁ֖וּר יַחְדָּֽו

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲרָזִ֔ים
'rzym
noun · 70×
בְרוֹשִׁ֑ים
brvshym
noun · 18×
הֲדַ֖ס
hds
noun · 6×
יַחְדָּ֑ו
ychdv
noun · 141×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מִּדְבָּ֑ר
mdbr
noun · 270×
עֵ֣ץ
'ts
noun · 324×
עַֽרְבֹ֣ת
'rbt
noun · 61×
שִׁטִּ֑ים
shtym
noun · 28×
שֶּׁ֖מֶן
shmn
noun · 191×
תְאַשּׁ֖וּר
t'shvr
noun · 2×
תִּדְהָ֥ר
tdhr
noun · 2×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Ezek 17:22 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountai
  • Ezek 47:12 — And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new f
  • Hos 14:8 — Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
  • Isa 27:6 — 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.
  • Isa 32:15 — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
  • Isa 35:1 — The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
  • Isa 37:31 — And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
  • Isa 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, t
  • Isa 55:13 — 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.
  • Isa 55:13 — 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.
  • Isa 60:13 — The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
  • Isa 60:21 — Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
  • Isa 61:3 — To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteou
  • Isa 61:11 — For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the na
  • Ps 92:13 — Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
  • Zech 1:8 — I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.