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Psalm 144:13
Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
11Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
13Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
14Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.
15Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is the LORD.
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Full barns and multiplying sheep picture a community with food to spare, making the plain good of material provision a source of gladness.
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Exodus 23:26No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.Both describe life flourishing in the land, though Exodus speaks of human fertility and lifespan while the psalm describes sheep multiplying.
Deuteronomy 7:13–14He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your …Both describe agricultural abundance and growing flocks; Deuteronomy names these among God’s blessings in the land he promised.
Deuteronomy 28:8The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.Barns connect these passages: the psalm pictures them full, while Deuteronomy promises the LORD’s blessing on them.
Leviticus 26:10You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.Both picture stored food in abundance, with Leviticus describing old supplies making room for new.
Deuteronomy 28:4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your …The increase of livestock is shared by both passages, appearing as flourishing sheep in the psalm and a blessing in Deuteronomy.
Psalm 107:37–38sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.Both describe productive fields, with Psalm 107 naming sowing and reaping and Psalm 144 describing abundant flocks.
Leviticus 26:5Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your …Both picture abundant food, with Leviticus describing harvests that follow one another and the psalm describing full barns.
Malachi 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says the LORD of Armies, “if I will not open you the …Both use food storage to describe abundance, though Malachi addresses the tithe and the psalm pictures a community’s provision.
Deuteronomy 8:3He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does …Both concern food provision; Deuteronomy recounts hunger and manna, while the psalm pictures barns already full.
Luke 12:16–20He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.Both describe material abundance in an agricultural setting, though Luke’s opening concerns one rich man and the psalm concerns a community.
Genesis 30:29–31Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.Livestock provide the shared subject, though Jacob speaks of his service and the psalm describes sheep multiplying in the fields.
Psalm 65:13The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.Both picture land rich with flocks and food, with Psalm 65 expressing that abundance through singing pastures and valleys.
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This picture promises no personal fortune. It belongs within a prayer for a people’s welfare under God, where food in storage and flourishing flocks are part of the good being sought.
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