The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
- KJV Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
- NKJV Yes, the Lord will give what is good; And our land will yield its increase.
- NASB Indeed, the Lord will give what is good, And our land will yield its produce.
- NLT Yes, the Lord pours down his blessings. Our land will yield its bountiful harvest.
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Quick answer
The LORD gives what is good, and the land yields its harvest. God's restored favor brings both spiritual and material blessing.
Overview
This verse affirms that God's blessing produces fruitfulness, recalling the covenant promise of land yielding its increase when the people walk with Him. It links God's goodness to tangible provision. Such abundance foreshadows the spiritual fruitfulness Christ gives, the One through whom every good gift flows from the Father.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jas 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Ps 67:6The earth has yielded its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.
- Lev 26:4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- 1 Cor 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
- Isa 30:23–24Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
- Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
- 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.
- Acts 21:20When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
- Ps 72:16May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.
- Matt 13:23But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
- Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Isa 32:15until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
- 1 Cor 3:6–9I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
- Acts 2:41Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
- Matt 13:8Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.
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