Daniel 4:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Its foliage was beautiful, its fruit abundant, and it provided food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it, the birds of the air nested in its branches, and from it all living beings were fed.

Cross References

Job 12:24

He strips understanding from the leaders of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste.

Job 14:7

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

Job 14:9

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.

Lamentations 4:20

The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life, was taken in their pits— the one of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”

Ezekiel 17:23

On the mountain height of Israel I will transplant it, and it will produce boughs and bear fruit and become a noble cedar. Under it every kind of bird will live; in the shade of its branches will nest winged creatures of every kind.

Ezekiel 31:17

They also went down to Sheol with it, to those killed by the sword, along with its allies, those who lived in its shade among the nations.

Daniel 4:14

He cried aloud and said: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from beneath it and the birds from its branches.

Matthew 13:32

it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

Mark 13:32

“But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father.

Mark 4:32

yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”

Luke 13:19

It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”