Bible Strands
Psalms 104:27
All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God within a creation hymn, immediately following a description of the sea and Leviathan. The moment occurs during a systematic account of how God sustains all life.
The words — The Hebrew יְשַׂבֵּר֑וּן (ye.sa.be.Ru/n) literally means "they wait," paired with בְּעִתּוֹ (be.'i.T/o) meaning "at its appropriate time." These terms frame creaturely dependence as an active expectation timed by divine decree.
The thread — This pattern of God supplying food to all creatures appears in Psalms 136:25, Psalms 147:9, and Job 38:41. Each reference reinforces that provision is consistently tied to God's sovereign timing.
Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that survival depends entirely on God's scheduled provision rather than autonomous effort. It requires readers to align their expectations with divine timing and cease self-reliant striving.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
Cross-references
- Psalms 136:25 He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 147:9 He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Job 38:41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
- Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
- Psalms 145:15 The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
- Job 36:31 For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.
- Psalms 36:6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.