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Psalm 107:37
sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
35He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.
36There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,
37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
38He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
39Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
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Fields and vineyards show provision taking shape through human work, as people once hungry sow and harvest on land God has made fit for life.
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1 Corinthians 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.Both passages connect planting with increase that comes from God, giving human work its place beneath his provision.
2 Corinthians 9:10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,Both passages speak of sowing and increase, though Corinthians extends the harvest language to the fruits of righteousness.
Isaiah 37:30“‘This shall be the sign to you: You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year …Both passages name sowing, reaping, and planting vineyards as people gain food from the land.
Jeremiah 29:5“Build houses and dwell in them. Plant gardens and eat their fruit.Both passages describe settled life through planting and gathering fruit, with homes and cultivated ground belonging together.
Zechariah 8:12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. I will cause the remnant …Both passages describe fruitful vines and the ground's increase as gifts within God's provision for his people.
Haggai 1:10–11Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.The earth's fruit connects these passages through contrast: the psalm describes a harvest, while Haggai describes fruit withheld.
Ezekiel 28:26They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely when I have executed judgments on all those around them …Both passages include planting vineyards and establishing homes as part of life made possible by God's action.
Genesis 26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.Sowing, reaping, and God's blessing appear in both passages, with Genesis naming Isaac and the size of his harvest.
Psalm 65:9You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.Both psalms connect God's provision of water with land that yields food for people.
Acts 14:17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and …Both passages describe God's goodness through fruitful land and food, with Acts naming rain as part of that provision.
Joel 1:10–12The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.Fields and their produce connect these passages through contrast: the psalm describes increase, while Joel describes destroyed grain and dried wine.
Haggai 1:5–6Now therefore this is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.The connection is limited: Haggai urges people to consider their ways, while the psalm describes sowing and harvesting.
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The hungry people in this passage gain land to work and fruit to gather. Their labor has a place within God's blessing, and the harvest feeds them.
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