Psalms 104:14

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.

They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles .

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Yahweh answered his people, “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of Yahweh’s fierce anger.”

How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.

For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,