Bible Strands
Psalms 144:13
Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the community, projecting a future condition of agricultural and pastoral abundance following a prayer for divine intervention.
The words — The Hebrew מְלֵאִים (me.le.'Im) denotes being full, while מַאֲלִיפוֹת (Ma.'a.li.fot) specifies the numerical scale of the livestock increase.
The thread — This imagery of abundant harvests and multiplied livestock parallels the covenant blessings found in Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 28:8, and Leviticus 26:10.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that physical provision is tied to divine action, requiring the reader to align their expectations of security with God's covenantal faithfulness.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 7:13 He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
- Leviticus 26:10 You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- Genesis 30:29 Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
- Leviticus 26:5 Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- Psalms 107:37 They sow fields and plant vineyards that yield a fruitful harvest.
- Malachi 3:10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Luke 12:16 Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.