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2 Kings 19:29

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19:2950 This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth:51 This year you will eat what grows wild,52 and next year53 what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.54

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Footnotes

  1. 50 At this point the word concerning the king of Assyria (vv. 21–28) ends and the Lord again directly addresses Hezekiah and the people (see v. 20).
  2. 51 Heb “and this is your sign.” In this case the אוֹת (’ot), “sign,” is a future confirmation of God’s intervention designated before the actual intervention takes place. For similar “signs” see Exod 3:12 and Isa 7:14–25.
  3. 52 This refers to crops that grew up on their own (that is, without cultivation) from the seed planted in past years.
  4. 53 Heb “and in the second year.”
  5. 54 The four plural imperatival verb forms in v. 29b are used rhetorically. The Lord commands the people to plant, harvest, etc. to emphasize the certainty of restored peace and prosperity. See §34.4.c.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,

and the second year what springs from that.

But in the third year sow and reap,

plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Here is the proof that what I say is true:

“This year you will eat only what grows up by itself,

and next year you will eat what springs up from that.

But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them;

you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘This will be the sign for you: Eat the volunteer plants for the year, and in the second year, the volunteer plants that spring up from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

KJV 1900King James Version

And this shall be a sign unto thee,

Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves,

And in the second year that which springeth of the same;

And in the third year sow ye, and reap,

And plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.