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Isaiah 55:10
Isaiah 55:10 is verse 10 of Isaiah chapter 55, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
King James Version
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
World English Bible
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
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Isaiah 55:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
11 so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
12 You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Isaiah 30:23Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
Isaiah 61:11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Deuteronomy 32:2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
1 Samuel 23:4Once again, David inquired of the LORD, and the LORD answered him: “Go at once to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
Psalms 65:9You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
Psalms 65:10You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
Psalms 65:11You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
Psalms 65:12The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
Psalms 65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.
Psalms 72:6May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
Psalms 72:7May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.
Ezekiel 34:26I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
Hosea 10:12Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
Revelation 11:6These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
2 Corinthians 9:9As it is written: “He has scattered abroad His gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”
2 Corinthians 9:10Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:11You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, so that through us your giving will produce thanksgiving to God.