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Psalm 145:16

You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

14The LORD upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
16You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
18The LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
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Notice

God’s open hand links the needs of every living thing to his generosity, reaching from the food on a table to creatures beyond human sight.

Questions to write on. Each one opens a new entry with this verse already attached.

When you picture God’s open hand, what place does your next meal have in that picture?

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What questions arise when you read “every living thing” alongside the hunger you see around you?

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 104:28You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.Both verses picture God opening his hand and living creatures finding satisfaction in what he gives.
Psalm 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.Both passages name God as the one who satisfies, with Psalm 107 describing the longing and hungry soul.
Psalm 132:15I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.God’s provision satisfies in both passages, with Psalm 132 naming bread for the poor.
Mark 8:8They ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.Being filled after eating makes concrete the satisfaction named in the psalm, though Mark describes one meal.
Psalm 104:11They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.The wild donkeys whose thirst is quenched belong among the living things whose needs Psalm 145 describes God satisfying.
Job 38:27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?Both texts speak of satisfaction that supports life, with Job naming desolate ground where tender grass grows.
Mark 7:28But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”The dogs eating crumbs share the psalm’s concern with provision reaching living creatures beyond human beings.
Genesis 6:21Take with you some of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them.”Gathered food for people and other creatures shares the psalm’s broad scope of provision for living things.
Where this verse fits

Gratitude. job loss or money fear. praise and worship.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 145:16 before your next meal

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Encouragement

The surrounding lines speak of food and waiting. Your need for sustenance belongs within this praise of God, whose open hand sustains living things.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).