Joel 2:22

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Do not fear, wild animals! For the pastures of the wilderness are again green with grass. Indeed, the trees bear their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield to their fullest.

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  • Ps 65:12 : 12 The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.
  • Joel 1:18-20 : 18 Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering. 19 To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields. 20 Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Zech 8:12 : 12 ‘for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit, and the ground its yield, and the skies will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things.
  • Mal 3:10-12 : 10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all. 11 Then I will stop the plague from ruining your crops, and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 12 “All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth.
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
  • Lev 26:4-5 : 4 I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. 5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you, LORD, preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.
  • Amos 9:14-15 : 14 I will bring back my people, Israel; they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble and settle down. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; they will grow orchards and eat the fruit they produce. 15 I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,”says the LORD your God.
  • Jonah 4:11 : 11 Should I not be even more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals!”
  • Hag 2:16 : 16 From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
  • Ps 67:6 : 6 The earth yields its crops. May God, our God, bless us!
  • Ps 104:11-14 : 11 They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes. 13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow. 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
  • Ps 104:27-29 : 27 All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis. 28 You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food. 29 When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.
  • Ps 107:35-38 : 35 As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water. 36 He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live. 37 They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit. 38 He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis. 16 You open your hand, and fill every living thing with the food they desire.
  • Ps 147:8-9 : 8 He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides. 9 He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.
  • Isa 30:23-24 : 23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures. 24 The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 Certainly the LORD will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her arid rift valley like the Garden of the LORD. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music.
  • Ezek 34:26-27 : 26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing. 27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
  • Ezek 36:8 : 8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon.
  • Ezek 36:30 : 30 I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
  • Ezek 36:35 : 35 They will say,“This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”
  • Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon. 6 His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. 7 People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

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    17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

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    11Then I will stop the plague from ruining your crops, and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Lev 25:19
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    7People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

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  • Dan 4:21
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