Then your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
Parallel translations
- WEB so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
- KJV So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
- BSB then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
- NKJV So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
- NLT Then he will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine.
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Quick answer
Then your barns will be filled and your vats overflow with new wine. It matters because it promises God's provision to those who honor Him.
Overview
The promised result of honoring God with wealth (v. 9) is abundant provision. This reflects the general principle of God's blessing on faithful stewardship, not a guarantee of riches in every case. It points to God as the generous Provider who supplies our needs.
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- Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
- Deut 28:8Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Prov 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
- Joel 2:24The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
- Prov 22:9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
- 2 Cor 9:6–11Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
- Eccl 11:1–2Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
- Hag 2:19Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
- Mal 3:10–11Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- Matt 10:42Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”
- Lev 26:2–5“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
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