Isaiah 36:17
Good News Translation
until the emperor resettles you in a country much like your own, where there are vineyards to give wine and there is grain for making bread.

New Revised Standard Version
until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Contemporary English Version
for a while. Then he will come and take you away to a country just like yours, where you can plant vineyards and raise your own grain.

New American Bible
until I arrive and take you to a land like your own, A land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

I come

2 Kings 17:6 And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala, and Habor, by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:9-12 In the fourth year of king Ezechias, which was the seventh year of Osee, the son of Ela, king of Israel, Salmanasar, king of the Assyrians, came up to Samaria, and besieged it, . . .

2 Kings 24:11 And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his servants, to assault it.

Proverbs 12:10 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish.

a land of corn

Exodus 3:8 And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills deep rivers break out: . . .

Deuteronomy 11:12 And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.

Job 20:17 Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.

Context
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
16Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to me, and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the water of his cistern, 17Till I come and take you away to a land, like to your own, a land of corn and of wine, a land of bread and vineyards.18Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?…
Cross References
Isaiah 36:16
Do not hearken to Ezechias: for thus said the king of the Assyrians: Do with me that which is for your advantage, and come out to me, and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the water of his cistern,

Isaiah 36:18
Neither let Ezechias trouble you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?

Isaiah 36:16
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