Isaiah 32:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

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  • Eccl 11:1 : 1 Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.
  • Isa 30:23-24 : 23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands. 24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
  • Isa 55:10-11 : 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food; 11 So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:14 : 14 And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;
  • 1 Cor 3:6 : 6 I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.
  • 1 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders? 10 Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it. 11 If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world?
  • Jas 3:18 : 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
  • Isa 19:5-7 : 5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste: 6 And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing. 7 The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.

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  • Isa 30:23-24
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    23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

    24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

  • 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

  • Deut 28:3-5
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    3 A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.

    4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

    5 A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

  • 19 But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.

  • 25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

  • 10 Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

  • Ps 107:37-38
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    37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

    38 He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

  • 6 They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

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    7 All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field;

  • Ps 104:10-11
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    10 You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

    11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.

  • 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

  • 7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

  • 14 Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.

  • 15 Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

  • 7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

  • 15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

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    18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?

    19 And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.

  • 6 Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

  • 5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

  • 17 For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

  • 4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

  • 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.

  • 4 Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.

  • 5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • 22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • 23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

  • 5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

  • 12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

  • 8 The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • 4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

  • 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

  • 8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

  • 10 Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.

  • 18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • 18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

  • 14 And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

  • 28 And store-houses for the produce of grain and wine and oil; and buildings for all sorts of beasts and flocks.

  • 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

  • 27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

  • 12 Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

  • Isa 32:15-16
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    15 Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.

    16 Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.

  • 7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • 10 Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.