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Psalm 4:7
You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
5Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in the LORD.
6Many say, “Who will show us any good?” LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.
7You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
8In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me live in safety.
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Grain and new wine mark a successful harvest, yet David’s greater gladness comes from God, challenging the weight you might give to having more.
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Isaiah 9:3You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the …Both passages credit God with giving joy and use the gladness of harvest as a measure.
Psalm 63:2–5So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.Both speakers address God about a personal experience of his presence or gifts, though the supplied Psalm 63 verse emphasizes power and glory.
Psalm 30:11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,Both credit God with giving gladness; Psalm 30 describes that gift through mourning turned into dancing.
Psalm 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.Psalm 4 credits God with gladness greater than harvest joy, while Psalm 43 names God as the speaker’s exceeding joy.
Psalm 37:4Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.Both connect the heart with God and delight: one recounts gladness received, while the other urges delight in the LORD.
Acts 14:17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and …Both name gladness in the heart alongside agricultural abundance and identify God as the giver.
John 6:55For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.The shared thread is food and drink; Psalm 4 compares joys, while Jesus speaks of his flesh and blood.
Jeremiah 48:33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with …Both associate wine production with gladness; Psalm 4 describes greater joy from God, while Jeremiah describes joy removed from Moab.
Judges 9:27They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed …Both connect harvest abundance with celebration, though Judges describes vineyard workers feasting in the house of their god.
Song of Songs 1:4Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than …Both use wine as a point of comparison for something prized more: God-given gladness in the psalm and love in the song.
Joel 1:12The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered— the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are …Both link crops with human joy; Psalm 4 names increasing grain and wine, while Joel describes withered plants and vanished joy.
1 Peter 1:8whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,Psalm 4 credits God with inward gladness; Peter describes joy in Christ, whom believers love and trust without seeing.
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The harvest is worth celebrating, yet David has received a greater gladness from God. The heart’s joy need not wait for grain and wine to increase.
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