Psalms 104:27
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
KJV
Posuit in eis verba signorum suorum, et prodigiorum in terra Cham.
Vulgate
ἔθετο αὐτοῖς τοὺς λόγους τῶν σημείων αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν τεράτων ἐν γῇ Χάμ.
LXX
These wait all for thee, That thou mayest give them their food in due season.
ASV
כֻּ֭לָּ/ם אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ יְשַׂבֵּר֑וּ/ן לָ/תֵ֖ת אָכְלָ֣/ם בְּ/עִתּֽ/וֹ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֹֽכֶל
'kl
noun · 44×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
עֵ֣ת
't
verb · 293×
שִׂבְּר֜וּ
shbrv
verb · 8×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2828"Give us": the trust of children who look to their Father for everything is beautiful. "He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."113 He gives to all the living "their food in due season."114 Jesus teaches us this petition, because it glorifies our Father by acknowledging how good he is, beyond all goodness.
Heidelberg Catechism · 2 passages
Q. What does the Lord require in the first commandment? A. That I, not wanting to endanger my very salvation, avoid and shun all idolatry, magic, superstitious rites, and prayer to saints or to other creatures. That I sincerely acknowledge the only true God, trust him alone, look to him for every good thing humbly and patiently, love him, fear him, and honor him with all my hea…
Q. What does the fourth request mean? A. Give us today our daily bread means: Do take care of all our physical needs so that we come to know that you are the only source of everything good, and that neither our work and worry nor your gifts can do us any good without your blessing. And so help us to give up our trust in creatures and to put trust in you alone.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 9:9 — For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
- Acts 17:25 — Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
- Deut 8:3 — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but
- Gal 6:9 — And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
- Gen 1:29 — And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
- Job 36:31 — For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
- Job 36:31 — For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
- Job 38:41 — Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- Job 39:8 — The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
- Joel 2:22 — Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
- Jonah 4:11 — And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
- Luke 12:24 — Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
- Matt 6:26 — Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
- Matt 10:29 — Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
- Ps 136:25 — Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Ps 136:25 — Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- Ps 145:9 — The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
- Ps 145:15 — The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
- Ps 145:15 — The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
- Ps 147:9 — He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
- Ps 147:9 — He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.