Verse 14

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 28:5 : 5 The earth produces food, but beneath it is overturned as if by fire.
  • Ps 147:8-9 : 8 He covers the sky with clouds; He prepares rain for the earth; He makes the mountains sprout grass. 9 He provides food for the animals and for the young ravens when they cry.
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 He gives food to all living things, for His steadfast love endures forever.
  • Gen 3:18 : 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every living creature that moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the plants, I now give you everything.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5 : 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and brooks. Perhaps we can find grass to keep the horses and mules alive and avoid losing the animals."
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.'
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds, on the earth.' And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:29-30 : 29 Then God said, 'Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that bears fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth, all the birds in the sky, and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.' And it was so.
  • Gen 2:5 : 5 No bush of the field had yet appeared on the earth, and no plant of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no one to work the ground.
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 The LORD God caused every tree that is beautiful in appearance and good for food to grow out of the ground, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. 16 You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • Job 38:27 : 27 to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and make the dry, barren land produce grass?
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 Even the doe in the field abandons her newborn because there is no grass. 6 Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights, panting like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.
  • Joel 2:22 : 22 Do not be afraid, you animals of the field, for the pastures in the wilderness are green; the trees bear their fruit, the fig tree and the vine yield their abundance.
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.