That our barns may be full, Supplying all kinds of produce; That our sheep may bring forth thousands And ten 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:
- BSB Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of 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, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deut 28:8Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Lev 26:10You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
- Deut 28:4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
- Mal 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- Lev 26:5Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
- Gen 30:29–31He said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
- Luke 12:16–20He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
- Ps 107:37–38sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
- Deut 8:3He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
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