They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.
Parallel translations
- WEB sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
- KJV And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
- 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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Quick answer
They sow fields, plant vineyards, and harvest a fruitful yield.
Overview
God's blessing enables the settlers to cultivate the land and gather abundant produce. Ordinary labor flourishes under his providential favor. This picture of fruitfulness and provision testifies to the goodness of God in everyday life, the same Giver who supplies every good gift and crowns his people's work with increase.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Cor 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
- 2 Cor 9:10Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
- Jer 29:5“Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.
- Isa 37:30And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Zech 8:12“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.
- Gen 26:12Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
- Hag 1:10–11Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
- Ezek 28:26And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
- Ps 65:9–13You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Isa 65:21They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Jer 31:5Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.
- Hag 2:16–19from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
- Joel 1:10–12The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.
- Acts 14:17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
- Hag 1:5–6Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Amos 9:13–15“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
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