You have put gladness in my heart, More than in the season that their grain and wine increased.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
- KJV Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
- BSB You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.
- 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 9:3You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.
- Ps 63:2–5So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
- Ps 37:4Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
- Ps 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
- Acts 14:17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
- Ps 92:4For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
- Song 1:4Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
- Jer 48:33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.
- Judg 9:27They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
- 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
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