She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
Parallel translations
- WEB She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.
- KJV She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
- NKJV She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also furnished her table.
- NASB She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine; She has also set her table;
- NLT She has prepared a great banquet, mixed the wines, and set the table.
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Quick answer
Wisdom has prepared her meat, mixed her wine, and set her table. She offers a rich, ready feast to all who will come.
Overview
Wisdom's careful preparation of a banquet pictures the abundant provision she offers. The mixed wine and laid table convey festivity and welcome, not scarcity. This generous feast anticipates the gospel banquet to which God invites sinners, and ultimately the marriage supper of the Lamb (Isaiah 25:6; Luke 14:16-24; Revelation 19:9).
Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 22:3–14He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
- Isa 25:6On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
- Luke 14:16–17But Jesus replied, “A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests.
- Prov 9:5“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
- Prov 23:30Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
- Song 8:2I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Gen 43:16When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”
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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.
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