I will give you great harvests from your fruit trees and fields, and never again will the surrounding nations be able to scoff at your land for its famines.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
- KJV And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
- BSB I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.
- NKJV And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations.
- NASB Instead, I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.
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Quick answer
God promises abundant harvest so His people will no longer bear the reproach of famine among the nations. He reverses the shame of judgment.
Overview
The fruitfulness of tree and field will remove the disgrace Israel suffered in scarcity. God's blessing publicly vindicates His people. This reversal of curse to blessing anticipates the abundant grace that overflows in the gospel of Christ.
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Cross-references · 5
- Ezek 34:27The 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.
- Joel 2:26You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, and will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and my people will never again be disappointed.
- Deut 29:23–28and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;
- Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- Lev 26:4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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