Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
- BSB Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
- NKJV Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.’ ”
- NASB Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree, it has not produced fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.’ ”
- NLT I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn. You have not yet harvested your grain, and your grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced their crops. But from this day onward I will bless you.”
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Quick answer
Though the barns and orchards are still empty, God promises, 'From today I will bless you.' Blessing comes by His grace before any visible harvest.
Overview
The crops had not yet produced, so the promise rests not on present evidence but on God's pure favor. From the day of obedience, He pledges to reverse their scarcity. This grace, given ahead of any results, reflects the gospel pattern in which God blesses His people by His promise, not their performance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Mal 3:10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
- Hab 3:17–18Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
- Prov 3:9–10Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- Matt 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
- Zech 8:11–15But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Gen 26:12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
- Ps 84:12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
- Ps 128:1–5Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
- Deut 15:10Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
- Lev 26:3–13If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- Deut 28:2–15And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
- Ps 133:3As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
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