Isaiah Chapter 44 verse 4 Holy Bible
and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
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And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.
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And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.
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And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
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and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
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And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by streams of water.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - They shall spring up as among the grass. The LXX. have, "As grass among the waters;" and this reading is followed by Bishop Lowth, Ewald, and Mr. Cheyne. But there does not seem to be any necessity for departing from the existing Hebrew text. As willows. There is some doubt whether the Hebrew word used ('ereb) is rightly translated "willows." The modern yarab seems certainly not to be a "willow," but rather a species of Viburnum (see the long note in Delitzsch's 'Commentary on Isaiah,' vol. 2. pp. 203, 204, Eng. trans.). It is, however, most strictly a water-plant, growing only "near flowing water."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) As willows.--The same word as in Psalm 137:2 and Isaiah 15:7. Botanists identify it with a species of Viburnum, which grows on the banks of streams, rather than with the "weeping" or other species of Salix.
