Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageYahweh once gave you a name full of promise: 'A flourishing olive tree, lovely with beautiful fruit.' But now, with the deafening roar of a great storm, He has set it ablaze—and its branches are broken.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GYHWH once called your name 'A verdant olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.' But with the roar of a mighty tempest He has set fire to it, and its branches are shattered.
KJV
King James VersionThe LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThe LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
Footnotes
The olive tree (*zayit ra'anan*—'fresh, living olive') was Israel's most prized agricultural symbol: long-lived, fruitful, yielding oil for worship, healing, and light. YHWH's naming of Israel as His olive tree (cf. Ps. 52:8) was a covenant declaration of beauty and fruitfulness. The abrupt shift to fire and shattered branches activates the covenant curse of Deuteronomy 28. Paul's olive tree metaphor in Romans 11:17–24 draws directly from this prophetic tradition, making this verse a crucial intertextual node between Jeremiah, Isaiah, and the Apostle's theology of Israel and the nations. FOG uses 'tempest' for the destructive force; FOG Message emphasises the poignancy of the contrast between the original naming and the present ruin.