Verse 14

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

Referenced Verses

  • Job 28:5 : 5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
  • Ps 147:8-9 : 8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains. 9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Gen 3:18 : 18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
  • Gen 9:3 : 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5 : 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals."
  • Gen 4:12 : 12 From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
  • Gen 1:11-12 : 11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
  • Gen 1:29-30 : 29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.
  • Gen 2:5 : 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
  • Gen 2:9 : 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also 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 wait for you. You give them their food in due season. 16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • Job 38:27 : 27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
  • Joel 2:22 : 22 Don't be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.
  • 1 Cor 3:7 : 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.