New Living Translation
Psalms 132:15
15I will bless this city and make it prosperous; I will satisfy its poor with food.
Psalms 132:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
- New International Version (NIV)I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor I will satisfy with food.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
Context of Psalms 132:15
13For the Lord has chosen Jerusalem; he has desired it for his home. 14“This is my resting place forever,” he said. “I will live here, for this is the home I desired. I will bless this city and make it prosperous; I will satisfy its poor with food. 16I will clothe its priests with godliness; its faithful servants will sing for joy. 17Here I will increase the power of David; my anointed one will be a light for my people.
Read all of Psalms 132Psalms 132:15 word by word
צֵ֭ידָהּ בָּרֵ֣ךְ אֲבָרֵ֑ךְ אֶ֝בְיוֹנֶ֗יהָ אַשְׂבִּ֥יעַֽ לָֽחֶם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 132:15
- Psalms 147:14He sends peace across your nation and satisfies your hunger with the finest wheat.
- Exodus 23:25“You must serve only the Lord your God. If you do, I will bless you with food and water, and I will protect you from illness.
- Leviticus 26:5Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.
- Deuteronomy 28:2You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God:
- Proverbs 3:9Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce.
- Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes!
- Haggai 2:16When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.
- Malachi 2:2Listen to me and make up your minds to honor my name,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning to heart.
- Matthew 14:19Then he told the people to sit down on the grass. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave the bread to the disciples, who distributed it to the people.
- Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away with empty hands.
- 2 Corinthians 9:10For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.
- Psalms 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy.
- Psalms 33:18But the Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love.
- Psalms 36:8You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your river of delights.
- Psalms 37:3Trust in the Lord and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper.
- Deuteronomy 14:29Give it to the Levites, who will receive no allotment of land among you, as well as to the foreigners living among you, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, so they can eat and be satisfied. Then the Lord your God will bless you in all your work.
Commentaries on Psalms 132:15
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15I will abundantly bless her provision - Margin, surely. Hebrew, “Blessing I will bless,” a strong affirmation, meaning that he would certainly do it; that he would do it in every way; that every needed blessing would be imparted. The word rendered provision is a cognate form of the word in Psalm 78:25, translated meat: “He sent them meat to the full.” It properly refers to food for a journey, but it is applicable to any kind of food. The original idea is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-18Verses 11-18 The Lord never turns from us when we plead the covenant with his anointed Prophet, Priest, and King. How vast is the love of God to man, that he should speak thus concerning his church! It is his desire to dwell with us; yet how little do we desire to dwell with him! He abode in Zion till the sins of Israel caused him to give them up to the spoilers. Forsake us not, O God, and deliver us not in like manner, sinful though we are. God's people…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-17The psalmist remembers how God chose Jerusalem and appointed the priests.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1814-18. That choice is expressed in God's words, "I will sit" or "dwell," or sit enthroned. The joy of the people springs from the blessings of His grace, conferred through the medium of the priesthood.Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 15its provision its food.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 132
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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