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.’ ”
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.’”
- KJV 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.
- 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.”
- 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 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.
- Hab 3:17–18For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
- Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
- Matt 6:33But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Zech 8:11–15But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Gen 26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Ps 84:12Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
- Ps 128:1–5A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
- Deut 15:10You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.
- Lev 26:3–13“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- Deut 28:2–15All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
- Ps 133:3like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
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