Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
Cross References
Job 28:4Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
Job 28:6Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
Psalm 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
Treasury of Scripture
As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
out of it
Genesis 1:11,12,29
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so…
Psalm 104:14,15
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; …
Isaiah 28:25-29
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? …
fire
Ezekiel 28:13,14
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created…
