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I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Psalms 132:15 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.
  • KJV I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
  • NKJV I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
  • NASB “I will abundantly bless her food; I will satisfy her needy with bread.
  • NLT I will bless this city and make it prosperous; I will satisfy its poor with food.

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Quick answer

God promises to bless Zion's provisions and satisfy her poor with bread. It shows God's care to provide abundantly for His people.

Overview

The Lord pledges to bless Zion's supply and feed even her poor to satisfaction. God's presence brings tangible provision and special care for the needy. This anticipates Christ, the bread of life, who satisfies the hungry and lifts up the lowly.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Ps 147:14He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.
  • Lev 26:4–5I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
  • Prov 3:9–10Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
  • 2 Cor 9:10–11Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
  • Mark 8:6–9And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And they distributed them to the crowd.
  • Matt 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
  • Hag 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
  • Deut 14:29Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
  • Matt 6:32–33For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
  • Mal 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
  • Exod 23:25So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
  • Isa 33:16he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
  • Hag 2:16–19from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
  • Hag 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
  • Jer 31:14I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
  • Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
  • Ps 107:9For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
  • Ps 37:3Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
  • Ps 36:8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
  • Matt 14:19–21And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
  • Ps 33:18–19Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
  • Ps 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
  • Deut 28:2–5And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
  • Ps 37:19In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 132:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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