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Psalm 81:10

I am the LORD, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

8“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
10I am the LORD, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
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Notice

Egypt comes before the open mouth: God's promise to provide asks for trust rooted in the rescue he has accomplished for Israel.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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John 15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.Both connect promised provision with a relationship to the giver; Jesus speaks of remaining in him and his words.
Exodus 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.In both passages, the LORD identifies himself as Israel's God who brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Psalm 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.Both describe God filling those who need him, using an open mouth in one passage and a hungry soul in the other.
Matthew 7:8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.Both pair an act of seeking provision with a promise of receiving: opening the mouth in the psalm and asking in Matthew.
John 7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!Both use bodily need to describe receiving provision: God promises to fill an open mouth, and Jesus offers drink to the thirsty.
Revelation 21:6He said to me, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.Both join the speaker's declaration of who he is with a promise to supply those in need.
Ephesians 3:19–20and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.Both use the language of being filled, with God as the source of what his people receive.
Psalm 37:3–4Trust in the LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.Both connect dependence on the LORD with provision, pictured as a filled mouth and safe pasture.
Revelation 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.Both portray receiving through bodily images: an open mouth being filled and a thirsty person taking the water of life.
John 16:23“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.Both promise divine provision; the psalm speaks of opening the mouth, while Jesus speaks of asking the Father in his name.
Jeremiah 31:31–33“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,Both record the LORD addressing Israel with a promise, though Jeremiah speaks of a new covenant rather than filling an open mouth.
Jeremiah 11:4which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice and do them, according …Both recall God bringing Israel out of Egypt and identify him as their God, with listening and obedience explicit in the surrounding psalm.
Where this verse fits

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 81:10 aloud before one meal

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Encouragement

Your needs can be brought to the God who rescued Israel from Egypt. His offer to fill an open mouth belongs with his claim on his people's worship.

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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).