a land that the Lord your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year!
Parallel translations
- WEB a land which Yahweh your God cares for. Yahweh your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
- KJV A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
- BSB It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
- NKJV a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
- NASB a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.
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Quick answer
It is a land the Lord personally cares for, with His eyes upon it all year. God's attentive providence watches over His people's land.
Overview
Moses describes Canaan as a land under God's continual care and watchful eye. Year-round, the Lord superintends its provision and welfare. This picture of God's constant, caring oversight assures His people of His providence, fully revealed in Christ who upholds all things.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Jer 24:6For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
- Ps 33:18Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
- 1 Kgs 9:3Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
- Ps 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
- Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
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