Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
- KJV Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
- NKJV Your congregation dwelt in it; You, O God, provided from Your goodness for the poor.
- NASB Your creatures settled in it; In Your kindness You provided for the poor, God.
- NLT There your people finally settled, and with a bountiful harvest, O God, you provided for your needy people.
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Quick answer
God's people settled in the land, and He provided for the poor in His goodness. It shows God's gracious provision, especially for the needy.
Overview
The psalmist notes that God's congregation dwelt in the land He had prepared, and that He supplied for the poor out of His goodness. God's care extends particularly to those in need. This generosity reflects the heart of God revealed in Christ, who brings good news to the poor.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 26:9–10And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Ps 74:19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
- Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- Matt 11:5The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
- 1 Sam 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- Ps 74:1–2A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
- Ps 65:9You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Ps 78:20When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”
- Num 16:3They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”
- 1 Pet 5:3not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
- Exod 19:5–6Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Deut 32:8–14When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
- Deut 26:5and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
- Job 5:10–11He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
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