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Psalm 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.
7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
9For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.
10Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
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The repeated abundance and the river of God's pleasures make satisfaction central to this picture of what his shelter offers.
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Philippians 4:19My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.Both passages locate provision in God's riches: the abundance of his house and his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 16:11You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.Both psalms locate pleasure with God, describing a river of his pleasures and pleasures forever in his right hand.
Psalm 65:4Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.Both passages describe people being filled from God's house, joining nearness to him with the goodness he provides.
Isaiah 58:11and the LORD will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of …Both passages join satisfaction with water imagery, portraying God as the source of what sustains his people.
Isaiah 25:6In this mountain, the LORD of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined …God provides abundance in both passages, pictured as the abundance of his house and a feast for all peoples.
Jeremiah 31:12–14They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of the LORD, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the …Both passages describe satisfaction from God's goodness through images of abundant provision and water.
Psalm 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,Both psalms speak of being satisfied, using abundance in God's house and rich food to portray that satisfaction.
Matthew 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.Both passages promise satisfaction; Matthew specifies hunger and thirst for righteousness, while the psalm pictures drinking from God's pleasures.
Revelation 22:1–17He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,Both passages portray a river associated with God: his river of pleasures and the river flowing from God's and the Lamb's throne.
Psalm 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.Both psalms connect a river with delight in God's dwelling, describing his pleasures and streams that make his city glad.
Isaiah 48:21They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts. He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them. He also split the rock and the waters gushed …God supplies drink in both passages, through the psalm's river of pleasures and water flowing from rock in the desert.
Job 20:17He will not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.Both passages use rivers to picture abundance, though Psalm 36 promises satisfaction and Job 20:17 describes someone denied such abundance.
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The God who shelters people also satisfies them. In this psalm, abundance belongs to his house, and the river of pleasures is his to give.
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