Psalms 104:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 28:5 : 5 The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;
  • 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.
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.
  • Gen 3:18 : 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5 : 5 Ahab told Obadiah,“Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals.”
  • 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.”
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so. 12 The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:29-30 : 29 Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.
  • Gen 2:5 : 5 Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
  • 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.
  • Job 38:27 : 27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass. 6 Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”
  • Joel 2:22 : 22 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.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 104:10-13
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    80%

    10He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

    11They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

    12The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes.

    13He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

  • Ps 147:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

    9He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.

  • Deut 11:15
    77%

    15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

  • Ps 104:15-16
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    77%

    15as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.

    16The trees of the LORD receive all the rain they need, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,

  • Isa 30:23-24
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    75%

    23He 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.

    24The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.

  • Job 38:27
    75%

    27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

  • Gen 1:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

    30And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

  • Ps 107:36-38
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    74%

    36He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

    38He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.

  • Gen 1:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11God said,“Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds and trees on the land bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds.” It was so.

    12The land produced vegetation– plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

  • Heb 6:7
    73%

    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • Ps 103:15
    72%

    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

  • Ps 65:9-10
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    72%

    9You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile. God’s streams are full of water; you provide grain for them, for you have prepared the earth in this way.

    10You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

  • Lev 25:7
    72%

    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Ps 104:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.

    28You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.

  • Ps 85:12
    71%

    12Yes, the LORD will bestow his good blessings, and our land will yield its crops.

  • Job 40:20
    71%

    20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

  • Prov 27:25
    71%

    25When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

  • Job 5:10
    71%

    10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • Gen 3:18
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    18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

  • Ps 135:7
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    7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • Ps 67:6
    70%

    6The earth yields its crops. May God, our God, bless us!

  • Isa 55:10
    70%

    10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

  • Mark 4:28
    70%

    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

  • Ps 8:7
    70%

    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

  • Job 36:31
    70%

    31It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.

  • Gen 2:5
    70%

    5Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

  • Isa 61:11
    70%

    11For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the Sovereign LORD will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.

  • Ps 72:6
    70%

    6He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

  • Eccl 5:9
    69%

    9The produce of the land is seized by all of them, even the king is served by the fields.

  • Ps 23:2
    69%

    2He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water.

  • Deut 32:13
    69%

    13He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land, and he ate of the produce of the fields. He provided honey for him from the cliffs, and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

  • Job 39:8
    69%

    8It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

  • Jer 51:15
    69%

    15He is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place, by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

  • Ps 104:32
    69%

    32He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

  • Ps 104:30
    69%

    30When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

  • Ps 78:24
    69%

    24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them the grain of heaven.

  • Ps 72:16
    69%

    16May there be an abundance of grain in the earth; on the tops of the mountains may it sway! May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon! May its crops be as abundant as the grass of the earth!

  • Ps 147:14
    69%

    14He brings peace to your territory. He abundantly provides for you the best grain.