They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Parallel translations
- WEB They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
- BSB They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
- NKJV They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures.
- NASB They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.
- NLT You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your river of delights.
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Those who take refuge in God are abundantly satisfied from His house and drink from His river of delights. God lavishly nourishes His people.
Overview
David describes the rich provision God gives those who shelter in Him, feasting in His house and drinking from a 'river of your pleasures.' The language of abundance shows that fellowship with God truly satisfies the soul. Jesus fulfills this, offering living water and the bread of life (John 4:14; 6:35), the lasting satisfaction these images foreshadow.
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Cross-references · 17
- Ps 16:11Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
- Ps 65:4Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
- Isa 58:11And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
- Jer 31:12–14Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
- Isa 25:6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
- Ps 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
- Matt 5:6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
- Ps 46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
- Isa 48:21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
- Job 20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- Isa 55:1–2Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
- Rev 22:1–17And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
- Isa 43:20The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
- John 7:37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
- Ps 17:15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
- Zech 9:17For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
- Song 5:1I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
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