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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Quick answer
All these creatures look to God to give them their food in due season. Every living thing depends on His timely provision.
Overview
The whole creation waits upon God, who supplies food at the proper time. Their existence is a continual dependence on His open hand. This providence is the basis for trust, for the God who feeds all creatures is the Father who teaches us to pray for daily bread through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 136:25Who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.
- Ps 147:9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
- 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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