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Isaiah 55:10-11
The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.”
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Mark 4:26-32
He also said,“ The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”He also asked,“ To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground–when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”
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Psalms 85:11
Faithfulness grows from the ground, and deliverance looks down from the sky.
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Isaiah 60:18
Sounds of violence will no longer be heard in your land, or the sounds of destruction and devastation within your borders. You will name your walls,‘ Deliverance,’ and your gates,‘ Praise.’
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Isaiah 58:11
The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.
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Song of Solomon 4 16-Song of Solomon 5 1
Awake, O north wind; come, O south wind! Blow on my garden so that its fragrant spices may send out their sweet smell. May my beloved come into his garden and eat its delightful fruit!I have entered my garden, O my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk! Eat, friends, and drink! Drink freely, O lovers!
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Isaiah 45:8
O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the LORD, create it.
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Isaiah 62:1
“ For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch.”
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Psalms 72:16
May there be an abundance of grain in the earth; on the tops of the mountains may it sway! May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon! May its crops be as abundant as the grass of the earth!
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Matthew 13:23
But as for the seed sown on good soil, this is the person who hears the word and understands. He bears fruit, yielding a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”
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1 Peter 2 9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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Matthew 13:3
He told them many things in parables, saying:“ Listen! A sower went out to sow.
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Isaiah 62:7
Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
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Psalms 72:3
The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice.
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Matthew 13:8
But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.