Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
Parallel translations
- WEB You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
- BSB You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
- NKJV You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance.
- NASB You have crowned the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with fatness.
- NLT You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
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Quick answer
God crowns the year with His bounty, and abundance overflows His paths. It praises God as the source of all good provision.
Overview
David pictures the year itself crowned with God's goodness, His tracks dripping with abundance. The seasons of harvest are gifts of divine generosity. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father, fully displayed in His gift of the Son.
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- Joel 2:21–26Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
- Ps 103:4Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
- Ps 5:12For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
- Ps 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
- Hag 2:19Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
- 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.
- Prov 14:18The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
- Heb 2:7–9Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
- Ps 25:10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Joel 2:14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
- Job 36:28Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
- Ps 104:3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
- Rom 11:17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
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