Verse 14

He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

Referenced Verses

  • Job 28:5 : 5 As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.
  • Ps 147:8-9 : 8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains. 9 He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
  • Gen 3:18 : 18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5 : 5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so. 12 And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:29-30 : 29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food: 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
  • Gen 2:5 : 5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time. 16 By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.
  • Job 38:27 : 27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass. 6 And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.
  • Joel 2:22 : 22 Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.