When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Joel 2:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Do not fear, you animals of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and vine give their full yield. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Be not afraid, you wild beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness have sprung up and are green; the tree bears its fruit, and the fig tree and the vine yield their [full] strength. American Standard Version (1901) Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength. Common English Bible Don’t be afraid, animals of the field, for the meadows of the wilderness will turn green; the tree will bear its fruit; the fig tree and grapevine will give their full yield. Catholic Public Domain Version Animals of the countryside, do not be afraid. For the beauty of the wilderness has sprung forth. For the tree has borne its fruit. The fig tree and the vine have bestowed their virtue. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Fear not, ye beasts of the fields: for the beautiful places of the wilderness are sprung, for the tree hath brought forth its fruit, the fig tree, and the vine have yielded their strength. |
When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.
The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills gird themselves with joy;
the meadows clothe themselves with flocks; the valleys deck themselves with grain; they shout and sing together for joy.
For the Lord will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places and will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
I will make the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field abundant, so that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
And they will say, “This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined towns are now inhabited and fortified.”
But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot out your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they shall soon come home.
And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also many animals?”
how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
For there shall be a sowing of peace; the vine shall yield its fruit, the ground shall give its produce, and the skies shall give their dew, and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.