sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
Parallel translations
- KJV And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
- BSB They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.
- NKJV And sow fields and plant vineyards, That they may yield a fruitful harvest.
- NASB And sow fields and plant vineyards, And gather a fruitful harvest.
- NLT They sow their fields, plant their vineyards, and harvest their bumper crops.
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- 1 Cor 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
- 2 Cor 9:10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
- Jer 29:5“Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit.
- Zech 8:12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
- Isa 37:30This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
- Hag 1:10–11Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
- Gen 26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Ezek 28:26They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
- Ps 65:9–13You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
- Isa 65:21They will build houses, and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
- Jer 31:5Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit.
- Joel 1:10–12The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.
- Hag 2:16–19Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
- Hag 1:5–6Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
- Acts 14:17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
- Amos 9:13–15“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
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