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Psalms 81:10
I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks directly to Israel, identifying Himself by the Exodus and issuing a command. The surrounding verses (81:9, 81:11) frame this as a rebuke: Israel has not listened, and God restates who He is before the demand.
The words — הַרְחֶב (har.chev, H7337) is the Hiphil imperative of רחב, literally "make wide/large," a physical command to open the mouth. פִּי (Pi, H6310) is "mouth," the organ of both eating and speech.
The thread — The self-identification "I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt" echoes Exodus 20:2, the opening of the Decalogue. The promise to fill connects to Psalms 107:9 and, in the New Testament, to John 15:7's "ask whatever you wish."
Why it lands — The verse is an imperative, not a passive promise: the mouth must be opened by the one who speaks. It asks the reader to act — to open, to receive — rather than to wait for God to force the issue.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Cross-references
- John 15:7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
- Exodus 20:2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Psalms 107:9 For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
- John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Revelation 21:6 And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
- Ephesians 3:19 of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
- Psalms 37:3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
- Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
- John 16:23 In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
- Jeremiah 11:4 which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’