They sow their fields, plant their vineyards, and harvest their bumper crops.
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.
- 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.
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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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gen 26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- Hag 1:10–11Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- Hag 1:5–6Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
- 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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