Isaiah 60:21

60:21 All of your people will be godly; ¹ 

they will possess the land permanently.

I will plant them like a shoot;

they will be the product of my labor,

through whom I reveal my splendor. ² 

Jeremiah 24:6

24:6 I will look after their welfare ³  and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land ⁴  and will not uproot them. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 32:41

32:41 I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them ⁶  firmly in the land.’

Ezekiel 34:28

34:28 They will no longer be prey for the nations and the wild beasts will not devour them. They will live securely and no one will make them afraid.

Ezekiel 37:25

37:25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

Joel 3:20

3:20 But Judah will reside securely forever,

and Jerusalem will be secure ⁷  from one generation to the next.

Micah 4:4

4:4 Each will sit under his own grapevine

or under his own fig tree without any fear. ⁸ 

The Lord who commands armies has decreed it. ⁹ 

¹ tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”

² tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”

³ tn Heb “I will set my eyes upon them for good.” For the nuance of “good” see Jer 21:10; Amos 9:4 (in these cases the opposite of harm; see BDB 375 s.v. טוֹבָה 1).

⁴ tn The words “There” and “firmly in the land” are not in the text but are implicit from the connection and the metaphor. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵ sn For these terms see Jer 1:10.

⁶ tn Heb “will plant them in the land with faithfulness with all my heart and with all my soul.” The latter expressions are, of course, anthropomorphisms (see Deut 6:5).

⁷ tn The phrase “will be secure” does not appear in the Hebrew, but are supplied in the translation for the sake of smoothness.

⁸ tn Heb “and there will be no one making [him] afraid.”

⁹ tn Heb “for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken.”