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Psalm 104:14

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

12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
15wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
16The LORD’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,
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Grass for livestock and plants for cultivation make an ordinary meal worth noticing: human work depends on growth that God gives.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 1:30To 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 …Both passages describe plants as food God provides for animals.
Psalm 136:25who gives food to every creature, for his loving kindness endures forever.Both passages name God as the giver of food, with provision extending beyond human beings.
Psalm 147:8–9who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.Both passages credit God with making grass grow on the earth.
Psalm 145:15–16Both passages trace the food creatures receive to God's provision.
1 Corinthians 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.Both passages use cultivation language while giving God the credit for growth.
Job 28:5As for the earth, out of it comes bread. Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.Both passages name the earth as the place from which human food comes.
Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.Both passages identify plants as food God has provided for human beings.
Deuteronomy 11:15I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.Both passages connect God's provision of grass for livestock with food for people.
Genesis 1:11–12God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was …Both passages attribute the earth's growing vegetation to God's action.
Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand …Both passages include animals alongside people as objects of God's concern.
Genesis 3:18It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.Both passages describe people eating plants from the earth, though Genesis also names thorns and thistles.
Psalm 50:10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.Livestock appear in both passages: God provides their grass in one and declares them his own in the other.
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Something small to carry out of this verse

Trace one food in your meal back to its plant

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Encouragement

The work of growing food has a place in God's provision. The hands that cultivate depend on him: he causes the plants to grow.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).