I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Parallel translations
- KJV I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
- BSB I will bless her with abundant provisions; 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.
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- Ps 147:14He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
- Lev 26:4–5then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
- 2 Cor 9:10–11Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
- Mark 8:6–9He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
- Matt 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
- Hag 1:6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
- Deut 14:29The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
- Matt 6:32–33For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
- Mal 2:2If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
- Exod 23:25You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
- Isa 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
- Hag 2:16–19Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
- Hag 1:9“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
- Jer 31:14I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
- Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
- Ps 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
- Ps 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
- Ps 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
- Matt 14:19–21He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
- Ps 33:18–19Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
- Ps 22:26The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
- Deut 28:2–5All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
- Ps 37:19They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
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