KJV King James Version
I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Isaiah 27:3
I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
WEB World English Bible
I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
ASV American Standard Version
I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!
Surrounding context — Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֲנִ֤יH589 · a.niIיְהוָה֙H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDנֹֽצְרָ֔הּH5341 · na.tsarto watchלִרְגָעִ֖יםH7281 · re.gamomentאַשְׁקֶ֑נָּהH8248 · sha.qahto water: wateringפֶּ֚ןH6435 · penlestיִפְקֹ֣דH6485 · pa.qadto reckon: listעָלֶ֔יהָH5921 · aluponלַ֥יְלָהH3915 · lay.lahnightוָי֖וֹםH3117 · yomdayאֶצֳּרֶֽנָּה׃H5341 · na.tsarto watch
Cross-references
Isaiah 58:11And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.John 15:1-2I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.Psalm 121:3-5He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.Ezekiel 34:11For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.Ezekiel 37:14And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken [it], and performed [it], saith the LORD.Isaiah 46:9Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me,Ezekiel 34:24And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken [it].Isaiah 55:10-11For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:Isaiah 60:16Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.Psalm 46:5God [is] in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, [and that] right early.Deuteronomy 33:26-29[There is] none like unto the God of Jeshurun, [who] rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.Isaiah 41:13-19For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.Isaiah 46:4And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver [you].Isaiah 35:6-7Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.Genesis 6:17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.Psalm 46:11The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.
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