And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
- KJV And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
- NKJV And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’
- NASB He will also provide grass in your field for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
- NLT He will give you lush pastureland for your livestock, and you yourselves will have all you want to eat.
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Quick answer
God will provide grass for livestock so the people eat and are satisfied. He supplies abundance for both beasts and people.
Overview
God's blessing extends to pasture for the animals and full satisfaction for the people. The promise pictures a flourishing, contented life under God's care. Such provision invites grateful trust rather than self-reliance, pointing to the Lord who satisfies all needs in Christ.
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- Ps 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
- Deut 6:11with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
- Joel 2:19And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.
- Mal 3:10–11Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Joel 2:22Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.
- Deut 8:10When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
- Joel 1:18How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
- Hag 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
- Jer 14:5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
- 1 Kgs 18:5Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
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