Daniel 4:12

Modern English Version

Its leaves were fair, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shadow under it, and the fowl of the heavens lived in its boughs, and all flesh was fed of it.

Cross References

Job 12:24

He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Job 14:7

“For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.

Job 14:9

yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our life, the anointed king of the Lord, was captured in their traps, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Ezekiel 17:23

On the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it. And it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a splendid cedar. And under it all fowl of every wing shall nest. In the shadow of its branches they shall nest.

Ezekiel 31:17

They also went down into Sheol with it to those who were slain with the sword. And those who were its power lived under its shadow in the midst of the nations.

Daniel 4:14

He cried aloud and said thus: ‘Hew down the tree and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowl from its branches.

Matthew 13:32

This indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the greatest among herbs and is a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”

Mark 13:32

“But concerning that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Mark 4:32

Yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all shrubs, and shoots out great branches, so that the birds of the air may nest in its shade.”

Luke 13:19

It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”