I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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 maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
- Lev 26:4–5Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Prov 3:9–10Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- 2 Cor 9:10–11Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
- Mark 8:6–9And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
- Matt 5:6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
- Hag 1:6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
- Deut 14:29And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
- Matt 6:32–33(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
- Mal 2:2If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
- Exod 23:25And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
- Isa 33:16He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
- Hag 2:16–19Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
- Hag 1:9Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
- Jer 31:14And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
- Luke 1:53He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
- Ps 107:9For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
- Ps 37:3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
- Ps 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
- Matt 14:19–21And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Ps 33:18–19Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
- Ps 22:26The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
- Deut 28:2–5And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
- Ps 37:19They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
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