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Your creatures settled in it; In Your kindness You provided for the poor, God.
Psalms 68:10 · New American Standard Bible
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.
  • BSB Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.
  • NKJV Your congregation dwelt in it; You, O God, provided from Your goodness for the poor.
  • 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

Cross-references · 14

  • Deut 26:9–10and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Ps 74:19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
  • Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
  • Matt 11:5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
  • 1 Sam 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
  • Ps 74:1–2A contemplation by Asaph. God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
  • Ps 65:9You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
  • Ps 78:20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
  • Num 16:3They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
  • 1 Pet 5:3neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
  • Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
  • Deut 32:8–14When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
  • Deut 26:5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
  • Job 5:10–11who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 68:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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