That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Parallel translations
- WEB Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
- BSB Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
- 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
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- Deut 7:13–14And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
- Deut 28:8The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- Lev 26:10And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
- Deut 28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- Mal 3:10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
- Lev 26:5And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
- Gen 30:29–31And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
- Luke 12:16–20And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
- Ps 107:37–38And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
- Deut 8:3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
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