You have crowned the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with fatness.
Parallel translations
- WEB You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
- KJV Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
- 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.
- 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 2:21–26Land, don’t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.
- Ps 103:4who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
- Ps 5:12For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
- Ps 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
- Hag 2:19Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
- 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.
- Prov 14:18The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
- Heb 2:7–9You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.
- Ps 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Joel 2:14Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
- Job 36:28Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
- Ps 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
- Rom 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
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