Isaiah 55:13 meaning and explanation

Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

Isaiah 55:13, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaiah 55 closes a chapter in which the LORD, speaking through the prophet to exiles in Babylon, invites the thirsty and the penniless to come and eat freely. Verse 13 pictures the homecoming as a transformed landscape: where thornbush and brier once grew, cypress and myrtle will spring up.

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