Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.
- BSB The LORD will indeed provide what is good, and our land will yield its 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 gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
- Ps 67:6Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
- Lev 26:4Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- 1 Cor 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
- Isa 30:23–24Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
- Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
- 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.
- Acts 21:20And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
- Ps 72:16There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
- Matt 13:23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
- Mic 6:8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
- Isa 32:15Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
- 1 Cor 3:6–9I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
- Acts 2:41Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
- Matt 13:8But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
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