Psalms 104:15

God gives wine to gladden the heart, oil to make the face shine, and bread to strengthen man. His gifts provide not only survival but joy.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
• Eccl 9:7Go your way — eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
• Eccl 10:19A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.
• Judg 9:13“The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
• Eph 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
• Ps 92:10But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.
• Heb 1:9You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
• Zech 9:15–17Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.
• Judg 9:9“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
• 1 Jn 2:20You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
• Jer 31:12They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
• Ezek 4:16Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay;
• Isa 3:1For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;
• Song 1:2–4Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.
• Deut 8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
• Luke 7:46You didn’t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
• Ps 105:16He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
• Eccl 8:1Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
• Deut 28:40You will have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you won’t anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.
• Prov 31:6Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:
• Lev 26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
• Ezek 14:13“Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;
• Mark 14:23He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.
• Ezek 5:16when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.
• Gen 18:5I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”

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