Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

For the pastures

General references

Bible References

Afraid

Joel 1:18

How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are bewildered and wander aimlessly
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer.
Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God,
Your judgments are like the great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
Psalm 104:11

They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst there.
Psalm 145:15

The eyes of all look to You [in hopeful expectation],
And You give them their food in due time.
Psalm 147:8

Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain for the earth,
Who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Isaiah 30:23
Then He will give you rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread [grain] from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful. In that day your livestock will graze in large and roomy pastures.
Jonah 4:11
Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 [innocent] persons, who do not know the difference between their right and left hand [and are not yet accountable for sin], as well as many [blameless] animals?”

For the pastures

Joel 1:19

O Lord, I cry out to You,
For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.
Psalm 65:12

The pastures of the wilderness drip [with dew],
And the hills are encircled with joy.
Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord will comfort Zion [in her captivity];
He will comfort all her ruins.
And He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
Thanksgiving and the voice of a melody.

For the tree

Leviticus 26:4
then I will give you rain in its season, and the land will yield her produce and the trees of the field bear their fruit.
Psalm 67:6

The earth has yielded its harvest [as evidence of His approval];
God, our God, blesses us.
Psalm 107:35

He turns a wilderness into a pool of water
And a dry land into springs of water;
Ezekiel 34:26
I will make them and the places around My hill (Jerusalem, Zion) a blessing. And I will make showers come down in their season; there will be [abundant] showers of blessing (divine favor).
Ezekiel 36:8
But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and bear your fruit to My people Israel; for they will soon come [home].
Hosea 14:5

I shall be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
Amos 9:14

“Also I shall bring back the exiles of My people Israel,
And they will rebuild the deserted and ruined cities and inhabit them:
They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine,
And make gardens and eat their fruit.
Haggai 2:16
from that time when one came to a grain heap expecting twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there would be only twenty.
Zechariah 8:12
‘For there the seed will produce peace and prosperity; the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will produce its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit and possess all these things.
Malachi 3:10
Bring all the tithes (the tenth) into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this,” says the Lord of hosts, “if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you [so great] a blessing until there is no more room to receive it.

Yield

Genesis 4:12
When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast].”
1 Corinthians 3:7
So neither is the one who plants nor the one who waters anything, but [only] God who causes the growth.

General references

Deuteronomy 11:14
that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early [fall] rain and the late [spring] rain, so that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your [olive] oil.