Jeremiah 17:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

For he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which spreadeth out her rootes by the riuer, and shall not feele when the heate commeth, but her leafe shall be greene, and shall not care for the yeere of drought, neyther shall cease from yeelding fruit.

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  • Ezek 31:4-9 : 4 The waters nourished him, and the deepe exalted him on hie with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde. 5 Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out. 6 All the foules of the heauen made their nestes in his boughes, and vnder his branches did all the beastes of the fielde bring foorth their yong, and vnder his shadowe dwelt all mightie nations. 7 Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters. 8 The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie. 9 I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him. 10 Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because he is lift vp on high, and hath shot vp his toppe among the thicke boughes, and his heart is lift vp in his height,
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper.
  • Isa 58:11 : 11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfie thy soule in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watred garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters faile not.
  • Ps 92:10-15 : 10 But thou shalt exalt mine horne, like the vnicornes, and I shalbe anoynted with fresh oyle. 11 Mine eye also shall see my desire against mine enemies: and mine eares shall heare my wish against the wicked, that rise vp against me. 12 The righteous shall flourish like a palme tree, and shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon. 13 Such as bee planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courtes of our God. 14 They shall still bring foorth fruite in their age: they shall be fat and flourishing, 15 To declare that the Lord my rocke is righteous, and that none iniquitie is in him.
  • Ezek 47:12 : 12 And by this riuer vpon the brinke thereof, on this side, and on that side shall grow all fruitful trees, whose leafe shall not fade, neither shall ye fruit thereof faile: it shal bring forth new fruit according to his moneths, because their waters run out of ye Sanctuarie: and the fruite thereof shalbe meat, and the leafe thereof shalbe for medicine.
  • Job 8:16 : 16 The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.
  • Jer 14:1-6 : 1 The worde of the Lord that came vnto Ieremiah, concerning the dearth. 2 Iudah hath mourned, and the gates thereof are desolate, they haue bene brought to heauinesse vnto the grounde, and the cry of Ierusalem goeth vp. 3 And their nobles haue sent their inferiours to the water, who came to the welles, and founde no water: they returned with their vessels empty: they were ashamed and confounded, and couered their heads. 4 For the grounde was destroyed, because there was no rayne in the earth: the plowmen were ashamed, and couered their heads. 5 Yea, the hinde also calued in the fielde, & forsooke it, because there was no grasse. 6 And the wilde asses did stande in the hygh places, & drew in their winde like dragons their eyes did faile, because there was no grasse.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 89%

    3For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper.

  • Jer 17:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6For he shall be like the heath in the wildernesse, and shall not see when any good commeth, but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse, in a salt land, and not inhabited.

    7Blessed be the man, that trusteth in ye Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

  • Ezek 17:8-10
    3 verses
    80%

    8It was planted in a good soyle by great waters, that it should bring forth branches, and beare fruite, and be an excellent vine.

    9Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, Shall it prosper? shall he not pull vp the rootes thereof, and destroy the fruite thereof, and cause them to drie? all the leaues of her bud shall wither without great power, or many people, to plucke it vp by the rootes thereof.

    10Beholde, it was planted: but shal it prosper? shall it not be dried vp, and wither? when the East winde shall touch it, it shall wither in the trenches, where it grewe.

  • 30For ye shalbe as an oke, whose leafe fadeth: and as a garden that hath no water.

  • Job 14:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    7For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

    8Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, & the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,

    9Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.

  • Job 8:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.

    17The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones.

  • Ezek 17:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5Hee tooke also of the seede of the lande, and planted it in a fruitfull ground: hee placed it by great waters, and set it as a willowe tree.

    6And it budded vp, and was like a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward it, and the rootes thereof were vnder it: so it became a vine, and it brought foorth branches, and shot foorth buds.

  • Ps 92:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12The righteous shall flourish like a palme tree, and shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon.

    13Such as bee planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courtes of our God.

    14They shall still bring foorth fruite in their age: they shall be fat and flourishing,

  • 76%

    23Euen in the hie mountaine of Israel will I plant it: and it shal bring forth boughes & beare fruite, and be an excellent cedar, and vnder it shal remaine all birds, and euery foule shall dwell in the shadow of the branches thereof.

    24And all the trees of the fielde shal knowe that I the Lord haue brought downe the hie tree, and exalted the lowe tree, that I haue dried vp the greene tree, and made the drie tree to florish: I the Lord haue spoken it, and haue done it.

  • 6As the valleis, are they stretched forth, as gardes by the riuers side, as the aloe trees, which the Lorde hath planted, as the cedars beside the waters.

  • 7Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

  • 16His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his branche be cut downe.

  • 12And by this riuer vpon the brinke thereof, on this side, and on that side shall grow all fruitful trees, whose leafe shall not fade, neither shall ye fruit thereof faile: it shal bring forth new fruit according to his moneths, because their waters run out of ye Sanctuarie: and the fruite thereof shalbe meat, and the leafe thereof shalbe for medicine.

  • Hos 14:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5(14:6) I will be as the dewe vnto Israel: he shall grow as the lilie and fasten his rootes, as the trees of Lebanon.

    6(14:7) His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.

    7(14:8) They that dwel vnder his shadow, shal returne: they shall reuiue as the corne, and florish as the vine: the sent thereof shalbe as the wine of Lebanon.

  • 12Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.

  • 16The high trees are satisfied, euen the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted,

  • Ezek 31:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4The waters nourished him, and the deepe exalted him on hie with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde.

    5Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

  • 32His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.

  • 19For my roote is spread out by the water, and the dewe shall lye vpon my branche.

  • 28He that trusteth in his riches, shall fall: but the righteous shall florish as a leafe.

  • 22Be not afrayde, ye beastes of the fielde: for the pastures of the wildernesse are greene: for the tree beareth her fruite: the figge tree & the vine do giue their force.

  • 17For the figtree shall not flourish, neither shall fruite be in the vines: the labour of the oliue shall faile, and the fieldes shall yeelde no meate: the sheepe shalbe cut off from the folde, and there shalbe no bullocke in the stalles.

  • 4And they shal grow as among the grasse, and as the willowes by the riuers of waters.

  • 14So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted by their height, neither shall shoote vp their toppe among the thicke boughes, neither shall their leaues stand vp in their height, which drinke so much water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the nether partes of the earth in the middes of the children of men among them that goe downe to the pit.

  • 6Hereafter, Iaakob shall take roote: Israel shall florish and growe, and the world shall be filled with fruite.

  • 22(40:17) Can the trees couer him with their shadow? or can the willowes of the riuer compasse him about?

  • 11And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfie thy soule in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watred garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters faile not.

  • 11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to growe, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seede to florish: but the haruest shall be gone in the day of possession, and there shalbe desperate sorrowe.

  • 31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Iudah, shall againe take roote downward and beare fruite vpward.

  • 30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Iudah, shall againe take roote downewarde, and beare fruite vpwarde.

  • 2Thou hast planted them, and they haue taken roote: they grow, and bring forth fruite: thou art neere in their mouth, and farre from their reines.

  • 16An handfull of corne shall be sowen in the earth, euen in the toppe of the mountaines, and the fruite thereof shall shake like the trees of Lebanon: and the children shall florish out of the citie like the grasse of the earth.

  • 2And that man shall bee as an hiding place from the winde, and as a refuge for the tempest: as riuers of water in a drie place, and as the shadowe of a great rocke in a weary land.

  • 12For the seede shall be prosperous: the vine shall giue her fruite, and the ground shal giue her increase, and the heauens shall giue their dewe, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possesse all these things.

  • 27And the tree of the fielde shal yeeld her fruite, and the earth shall giue her fruite, and they shalbe safe in their land, and shal know that I am the Lord, when I haue broken the cordes of their yoke, & deliuered them out of the hands of those that serued themselues of them.

  • 35I haue seene the wicked strong, and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.

  • 2For they shall soone bee cut downe like grasse, and shall wither as the greene herbe.