Isaiah 44:4
Good News Translation
They will thrive like well-watered grass, like willows by streams of running water.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall spring up like a green tamarisk, like willows by flowing streams.

Contemporary English Version
They will spring up like grass or like willow trees near flowing streams.

New American Bible
They shall spring forth amid grass like poplars beside flowing waters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.

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Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Psalm 92:13-15 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. . . .

Acts 2:41-47 They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls. . . .

Acts 4:4 But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of the men was made five thousand.

Acts 5:14 And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was more increased:

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Psalm 137:1,2 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: . . .

Ezekiel 17:5 And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth.

Context
The LORD has Chosen Israel
3For I will pour out waters upon the thirsty ground, and streams upon the dry land: I will pour out my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy stock. 4And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.5One shall say: I am the Lord's, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand, To the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.…
Cross References
Leviticus 23:40
And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook: And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.

Job 5:25
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

Job 40:22
The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.

Psalm 137:2
On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

Isaiah 48:19
And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.

Ezekiel 17:5
And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth.

Isaiah 44:3
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