The verse is attached to the song, but forms no integral part of it. It reads as in R.V.: In days to come shall Jacob take root, &c. By a unique ellipsis the word "days" is omitted in the original; hence the mistaken rendering of A.V., "them that come."

and fill the face of the world with fruit For a contrast see ch. Isaiah 14:21. The fruitfulness anticipated belongs to the sphere of temporal prosperity, teeming population, &c.

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