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And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
Psalms 107:37 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the 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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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

Cross-references · 16

  • 1 Cor 3:7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
  • 2 Cor 9:10Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
  • Jer 29:5Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
  • Isa 37:30And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
  • Zech 8:12For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
  • Gen 26:12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
  • Hag 1:10–11Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
  • Ezek 28:26And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
  • Ps 65:9–13Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
  • Isa 65:21And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
  • Jer 31:5Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
  • Hag 2:16–19Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
  • Joel 1:10–12The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
  • Acts 14:17Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
  • Hag 1:5–6Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
  • Amos 9:13–15Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 107:37 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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