I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
- KJV I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
- NKJV I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.
- NASB Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you.
- NLT I will cleanse you of your filthy behavior. I will give you good crops of grain, and I will send no more famines on the land.
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Quick answer
God promises to save His people from uncleanness and provide abundant grain without famine. Spiritual cleansing comes with material blessing.
Overview
God pledges both moral salvation from sin and the restoration of fruitful provision. Deliverance from uncleanness and freedom from famine display His total care. Such blessing pictures the fullness of life found in Christ, who satisfies every true need.
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Cross-references · 18
- Hos 2:21–23“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.
- Matt 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- John 1:7–9He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Rom 11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
- Hos 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
- Ezek 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Jer 33:8And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
- Matt 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Hos 14:2Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
- Ezek 34:27–29The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.
- Hos 14:8O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
- Joel 3:21For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.
- Ezek 36:8–9But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
- Zech 13:1“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
- Rom 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- Ps 105:6O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
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