These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.
Parallel translations
- KJV These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
- BSB All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
- NKJV These all wait for You, That You may give them their food in due season.
- NASB ¶They all wait for You To give them their food in due season.
- NLT They all depend on you to give them food as they need it.
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Cross-references · 7
- Ps 147:9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Ps 136:25Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
- Job 38:41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
- Luke 12:24–28Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
- Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.
- Job 36:31For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
- Ps 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
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