I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
- BSB And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 104:14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
- Deut 6:11and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
- Joel 2:19Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
- Mal 3:10–11Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- Joel 2:22Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
- Deut 8:10You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
- Joel 1:18How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
- Hag 1:6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
- Jer 14:5Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.
- 1 Kgs 18:5Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”
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