Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
- BSB You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.
- NKJV You have put gladness in my heart, More than in the season that their grain and wine increased.
- NASB You have put joy in my heart, More than when their grain and new wine are abundant.
- NLT You have given me greater joy than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine.
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Quick answer
God has given David greater gladness than the joy of an abundant harvest. Joy in God surpasses every material blessing.
Overview
David testifies that the Lord has placed in his heart a gladness exceeding the happiness of plentiful grain and wine. This is the joy of God's presence itself, which outweighs all earthly prosperity. Such satisfaction in God anticipates the fullness of joy believers find in Christ, in whom is found unfading and complete delight.
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- Isa 9:3Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
- Ps 63:2–5To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
- Ps 37:4Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
- Ps 43:4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
- Acts 14:17Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
- Ps 92:4For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
- Song 1:4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
- Jer 48:33And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
- Judg 9:27And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
- 1 Pet 1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
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