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Psalm 81:16

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
15The haters of the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
16But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
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The finest wheat and honey from rock picture God's generous provision, while “would have” leaves the sorrow of what Israel missed within the promise.

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Deuteronomy 32:13–14He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;Both passages name honey out of the rock as food God supplies for his people.
Matthew 7:8For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.Both speak of receiving, though Matthew names asking and seeking while the psalm describes food God would give.
Psalm 147:14He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.Both psalms use “the finest of the wheat” to describe the rich provision God gives his people.
Job 29:6when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,Both picture rich food coming from rock: honey in the psalm and streams of oil in Job's recollection.
1 Samuel 14:25–26All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.Honey is the shared food, found on the forest ground in Samuel and promised from rock in the psalm.
Joel 2:24The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.Both describe plentiful food through wheat, with honey completing the psalm's picture and wine and oil completing Joel's.
Judges 14:18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If …Honey links the passages: the psalm names it as satisfying food, while the riddle names its sweetness.
Deuteronomy 32:14butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the …Both passages include “the finest of the wheat” in their descriptions of rich food for God's people.
Judges 14:8–9After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and …Both mention honey in an unexpected place: rock in the psalm and a lion's carcass in Judges.
John 6:9“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”Both name food for people to eat, though John presents a small supply and the psalm describes abundant provision.
Genesis 45:18Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’Both speak of providing choice food, with fine wheat and honey in the psalm and Egypt's produce in Genesis.
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God speaks of feeding Israel with rich food in a psalm marked by their refusal to listen; his desire to provide remains part of that rebuke.

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