Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
- KJV That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
- NKJV That our barns may be full, Supplying all kinds of produce; That our sheep may bring forth thousands And ten thousands in our fields;
- NASB Our granaries are full, providing every kind of produce, And our flocks deliver thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
- NLT May our barns be filled with crops of every kind. May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands, even tens of thousands,
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Quick answer
David pictures full barns and flocks multiplying by thousands in the fields. It portrays the material abundance of a people blessed by God.
Overview
The vision continues with overflowing storehouses and rapidly multiplying livestock, signs of God's provision and prosperity. In Israel's setting these are tokens of covenant blessing. Ultimately such abundance points beyond temporal plenty to the lasting riches God grants His people in Christ (Ephesians 1:3; Philippians 4:19).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Deut 7:13–14He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deut 28:8The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
- Lev 26:10You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- Deut 28:4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- Mal 3:10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Lev 26:5Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
- Gen 30:29–31Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
- Luke 12:16–20Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
- Ps 107:37–38They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.
- Deut 8:3He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
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