Proverbs 27:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
  • Prov 10:5 : 5 The one who gathers crops in the summer is a wise son, but the one who sleeps during harvest is a shameful son.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 79%

    26the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field.

    27And there will be enough goat’s milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.

  • 76%

    23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,

    24for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.

  • 2For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

  • Ps 65:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.

    13The meadows are clothed with sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout joyfully, yes, they sing.

  • 12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

  • 27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • 25They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

  • Joel 1:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

    18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

    19To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.

  • 16May 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!

  • Isa 30:23-24
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    71%

    23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

    24The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.

  • Ps 129:6-7
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    71%

    6May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,

    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • 5Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

    11For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

  • 14He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

  • 4The withering flower, its beautiful splendor, situated at the head of a rich valley, will be like an early fig before harvest– as soon as someone notices it, he grabs it and swallows it.

  • 15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

  • 27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

  • 15with the best of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;

  • Isa 40:6-7
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    70%

    6A voice says,“Cry out!” Another asks,“What should I cry out?” The first voice responds:“All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.

    7The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.

  • 8It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

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    27Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

    28And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

  • Job 24:5-6
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    69%

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • 26Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • 24For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,

  • 6For the waters of Nimrim are gone; the grass is dried up, the vegetation has disappeared, and there are no plants.

  • 8He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

  • 5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

  • 11The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

  • 24They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’

  • 25Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?

  • 4How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”

  • 15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

  • 7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • 9The produce of the land is seized by all of them, even the king is served by the fields.

  • 27Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”

  • 6in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

  • 1Symbolic Visions of Judgment The Sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout.(The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)

  • 28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

  • 20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.