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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
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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 2:21–23It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
- Matt 1:21She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
- John 1:7–9The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Rom 11:26and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
- Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
- Ezek 36:25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Jer 33:8I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.
- Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
- Ezek 34:27–29The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.
- Hos 14:8Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”
- Joel 3:21I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”
- Ezek 36:8–9But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
- Zech 13:1“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
- Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
- Ps 105:6you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- Mic 7:19He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
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