The land ¹  dries up ²  and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up ³  and decays. Sharon ⁴  is like the desert; ⁵  Bashan and Carmel ⁶  are parched. ⁷ 

Shepherd your people with your shepherd’s rod, ¹  the flock that belongs to you, ²  the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. ³  Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, ⁴  as they did in the old days. ⁵ 

But as for you, ¹  be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it.”

I will make you ¹  extremely ²  fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. ³ 

Then God took note of ¹  Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant. ² 

It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land. ¹ 

There I will make David strong; ¹  I have determined that my chosen king’s dynasty will continue. ² 

But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

God blessed them ¹  and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” ² 

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

So his father Isaac said to him, “Indeed, ¹  your home will be away from the richness ²  of the earth, and away from the dew of the sky above.

The Israelites, ¹  however, ²  were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, ³  so that the land was filled with them.

I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain ¹  my covenant with you.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine ¹  in the inner rooms of your house; your children ²  will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.

Your very best valleys were full of chariots; ¹  horsemen confidently took their positions ²  at the gate.

until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. ¹  You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey. ² 

“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, ¹  planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

But ¹  other seed fell on good soil and produced grain, sprouting and growing; some yielded thirty times as much, some sixty, and some a hundred times.”

But the worker ¹  answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer ²  on it.