Isaiah 32:20
Good News Translation
How happy everyone will be with plenty of water for the crops and safe pasture everywhere for the donkeys and cattle.

New Revised Standard Version
Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.

Contemporary English Version
You will have God's blessing, as you plant your crops beside streams, while your donkeys and cattle roam freely about.

New American Bible
Happy are you who sow beside every stream, and let the ox and the donkey go freely!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

blessed

Isaiah 19:5-7 And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the river shall be wasted and dry. . . .

Isaiah 30:23 And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow in the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy possession:

Isaiah 55:10,11 And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: . . .

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again.

Acts 2:41 They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 4:4 But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of the men was made five thousand.

Acts 5:14 And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was more increased:

1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

James 3:18 And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

the ox

Isaiah 30:24 And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat mingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.

1 Corinthians 9:9-11 For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? . . .

Context
The Women of Jerusalem
19But hail shall be in the descent of the forest, and the city shall be made very low. 20Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again.

Isaiah 30:23
And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow in the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy possession:

Isaiah 30:24
And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat mingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.

Isaiah 32:19
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