Joel 2:22

New Century Version

Wild animals, don’t be afraid, because the open pastures have grown grass. The trees have given fruit; the fig trees and the grapevines have grown much fruit.

Cross References

Genesis 4:12

You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth.”

Psalm 36:6

Your goodness is as high as the mountains. Your justice is as deep as the great ocean. Lord, you protect both people and animals.

Psalm 65:12

The desert is covered with grass and the hills with happiness.

Psalm 65:13

The pastures are full of flocks, and the valleys are covered with grain. Everything shouts and sings for joy.

Psalm 67:6

The land has given its crops. God, our God, blesses us.

Isaiah 51:3

So the Lord will comfort Jerusalem; he will show mercy to those who live in her ruins. He will change her deserts into a garden like Eden; he will make her empty lands like the garden of the Lord. People there will be very happy; they will give thanks and sing songs.

Ezekiel 36:30

I will increase the harvest of the field so you will never again suffer shame among the nations because of hunger.

Ezekiel 36:35

They will say, “This land was ruined, but now it has become like the garden of Eden. The cities were destroyed, empty, and ruined, but now they are protected and have people living in them.”

Ezekiel 36:8

“ ‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow branches and fruit for my people, who will soon come home.

Jonah 4:11

Then shouldn’t I show concern for the great city Nineveh, which has more than one hundred twenty thousand people who do not know right from wrong, and many animals, too?”

Haggai 2:16

A person used to come to a pile of grain expecting to find twenty basketfuls, but there were only ten. And a person used to come to the wine vat to take out fifty jarfuls, but only twenty were there.

Zechariah 8:12

“They will plant their seeds in peace, their grapevines will have fruit, the ground will give good crops, and the sky will send rain. I will give all this to the people who are left alive.

1 Corinthians 3:7

So the one who plants is not important, and the one who waters is not important. Only God, who makes things grow, is important.