37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

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37 They sowed fields and planted vineyards(A)
    that yielded a fruitful harvest;

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So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

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So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.

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10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

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10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food(A) will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.(B)

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12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

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12 “The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit,(A) the ground will produce its crops,(B) and the heavens will drop their dew.(C) I will give all these things as an inheritance(D) to the remnant of this people.(E)

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Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

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“Build(A) houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

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30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

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30 “This will be the sign(A) for you, Hezekiah:

“This year(B) you will eat what grows by itself,
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year(C) sow and reap,
    plant vineyards(D) and eat their fruit.(E)

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10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

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10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld(A) their dew(B) and the earth its crops.(C) 11 I called for a drought(D) on the fields and the mountains,(E) on the grain, the new wine,(F) the olive oil(G) and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.(H)

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26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

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26 They will live there in safety(A) and will build houses and plant(B) vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment(C) on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.(D)’”

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12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

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12 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold,(A) because the Lord blessed him.(B)

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17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

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17 Yet he has not left himself without testimony:(A) He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons;(B) he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”(C)

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16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.

18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider it.

19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

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16 When anyone came to a heap(A) of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat(B) to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.(C) 17 I struck all the work of your hands(D) with blight,(E) mildew and hail,(F) yet you did not return(G) to me,’ declares the Lord.(H) 18 ‘From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought(I) to the day when the foundation(J) of the Lord’s temple was laid. Give careful thought: 19 Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate(K) and the olive tree have not borne fruit.(L)

“‘From this day on I will bless(M) you.’”

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Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

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Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought(A) to your ways. You have planted much, but harvested little.(B) You eat, but never have enough.(C) You drink, but never have your fill.(D) You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,(E) only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

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10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

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10 The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;(A)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine(B) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.(C)

11 Despair, you farmers,(D)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,(E)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.(F)
12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;(G)
the pomegranate,(H) the palm and the apple[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.(I)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:12 Or possibly apricot