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New International Version (1984 Edition)

Psalms 36:8

They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Happiness;   House;   Joy;   River;   Salvation;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abundance, Spiritual;   Abundance-Want;   Desire-Satisfaction;   Rivers;   Satisfaction;   Spiritual;   Thirst, Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Light;   Living Waters;   Satisfaction;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Happiness of Saints in This Life;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fountains;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Drink;   Temple;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Banquets;   Olive;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Guilt;   Life;   Proselyte;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - River;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - River;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Church;   Fountain;   River;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fatness;   Psalms, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hazkarat Neshamot;   Simeon ben Yoḥai;   Son of Man;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 11;   Every Day Light - Devotion for May 9;  

Parallel Translations

Complete Jewish Bible
How precious, God, is your grace! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings,
Darby Translation
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Easy-to-Read Version
They get strength from all the good things in your house. You let them drink from your wonderful river.
Hebrew Names Version
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How precious is Thy lovingkindness, O God! and the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Thy wings.
American Standard Version
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Bible in Basic English
The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They shalbe satisfied with the plenteousnesse of thy house: and thou shalt geue them drinke out of the riuer of thy delicates.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They shall be satisfied with the fatnesse of thine house, and thou shalt giue them drinke out of the riuer of thy pleasures.
George Lamsa Translation
They shall flourish with the richness of thy house; and thou shalt give them to drink of the pleasant water of thy spring.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of thine house; and thou shalt cause them to drink of the full stream of thy delights.
English Revised Version
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
Amplified Bible
They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.
World English Bible
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Contemporary English Version
You give your guests a feast in your house, and you serve a tasty drink that flows like a river.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They abundantly relish the fatness of thy house, - And out of the full stream of thine own pleasures, thou givest them to drink.
Good News Translation
We feast on the abundant food you provide; you let us drink from the river of your goodness.
King James Version (1611)
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house: and thou shalt make them drinke of the riuer of thy pleasures.
King James Version
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
New Century Version
They eat the rich food in your house, and you let them drink from your river of pleasure.
New English Translation
They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.
New International Version
They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.
New American Standard Bible
They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.
New King James Version
They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house, And You give them drink from the river of Your pleasures.
New Living Translation
You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your river of delights.
Lexham English Bible
They are refreshed with the fullness of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
Literal Translation
They shall be satisfied from the abundance of Your house; and You make them drink the torrent of Your pleasures.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They shalbe satisfied with the pleteousnesse of thy house, and thou shalt geue them drynke of the ryuer of thy pleasures.
Update Bible Version
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; And you will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Webster's Bible Translation
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(35-9) They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.
Revised Standard Version
They feast on the abundance of thy house, and thou givest them drink from the river of thy delights.
New Life Bible
They are filled with the riches of Your house. And You give them a drink from Your river of joy.
New Revised Standard
They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
Christian Standard Bible®
They are filled from the abundance of Your house; You let them drink from Your refreshing stream,
English Standard Version
They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei schulen be fillid gretli of the plentee of thin hows; and thou schalt yyue drynke to hem with the steef streem of thi likyng.
Young's Literal Translation
They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

Contextual Overview

5Your love, O LORD , reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. 6Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O LORD , you preserve both man and beast. 7How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings. 8They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.9For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. 10Continue your love to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart. 11May the foot of the proud not come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away. 12See how the evildoers lie fallen- thrown down, not able to rise!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
abundantly 16:11; 17:15; 63:5; 65:4; Song of Solomon 5:1; Isaiah 25:6; 55:1,2; Jeremiah 31:12-14; Zechariah 9:17; Matthew 5:6; John 7:37
satisfied
Heb. watered. Yirweyun, "they shall be saturated," as a thirsty field by showers from heaven.
Isaiah 58:11
and thou
16:11; 46:4; Job 20:17; Isaiah 43:20; 48:21; Revelation 22:1-17
thy pleasures
Or, adanacha, "thy pleasure," as four MSS., read; in which there is probably a reference to the garden of Eden, and the river that ran through, and watered it.
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:28 - the fatness;  Deuteronomy 33:23 - O;  Job 36:16 - full;  Psalm 25:13 - dwell at ease;  Psalm 37:11 - delight;  Psalm 42:2 - thirsteth;  Psalm 65:11 - fatness;  Psalm 84:1 - How;  Psalm 90:14 - satisfy;  Psalm 132:15 - I will satisfy;  Psalm 145:19 - fulfil;  Song of Solomon 4:15 - a well;  Isaiah 30:23 - it shall;  Isaiah 48:18 - then had;  Isaiah 58:14 - delight;  Isaiah 66:11 - ye may suck;  Jeremiah 17:13 - forsaken;  Jeremiah 31:14 - my people;  Mark 10:18 - that is;  John 4:10 - living;  Ephesians 3:20 - exceeding;  Philippians 4:19 - according;  Hebrews 2:13 - I will;  Hebrews 6:17 - more;  2 Peter 1:11 - abundantly;  Revelation 2:17 - to eat;  Revelation 7:17 - feed

Cross-References

Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert.
Genesis 32:3
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Genesis 36:1
This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite-
Genesis 36:7
Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock.
Genesis 36:19
These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs.
Genesis 36:20
These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the region: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Deuteronomy 2:5
Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.
Joshua 24:4
and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
1 Chronicles 4:42
And five hundred of these Simeonites, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, invaded the hill country of Seir.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall be abundantly sallied with the fatness of thy house,.... By his "house" is meant the church of God, of his building, and where he dwells; by the fatness of it the provisions there, the word and ordinances, and the blessings of grace which they hold forth; and especially Christ, the fatted calf, the bread of life, whose flesh is meat indeed, and whose blood is drink indeed, and which make a feast of fat things; and these they that trust in the Lord are welcome to eat and drink of abundantly, and to abundant satisfaction; see Matthew 5:6, Psalm 22:26;

and thou shall make them drink of the river of thy pleasure; the love of God, whose streams make glad the city of God; or the fulness of grace, which is in Christ, out of which believers draw with joy, and drink with pleasure; or eternal glory and happiness, enjoyed in the presence of God, in which is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore; a never ceasing torrent of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall be abundantly satisfied - Margin, “watered.” That is, all who thus put their trust in the mercy of God. The Hebrew word - רוה râvâh - means to drink to the full; to be satisfied, or sated with drink; or to be satisfied or filled with water, as the earth or fields after an abundant rain: Isaiah 34:7; Psalm 65:10. The state referred to by the word is that of one who was thirsty, but who has drunk to the full; who feels that his desire is satisfied:

(a) He has found that which is adapted to his wants, or which meets his needs, as water does the wants of one who is a thirst;

(b) He has found this “in abundance.”

There is no lack, and he partakes of it in as large measure as he chooses. So the weary and thirsty traveler, when he finds in the desert a “new and untasted spring,” finds that which he needs, and drinks freely; and so the sinner - the dying man - the man who feels that there is nothing in the world that can satisfy him:

(1) finds in the provisions of the gospel that which exactly meets the needs of his nature, and

(2) he finds it in abundance.

With the fatness - The word used here means properly “fatness” or “fat:” Judges 9:9. Then it means “fat food,” or “sumptuous food,” Job 36:16; Isaiah 55:2; Jeremiah 31:14. It is connected here with the word “drink,” or “drink in,” because this kind of food was “sucked” in at the mouth, and the mode of partaking of it resembled the act of drinking. Gesenius. The allusion is the same as that which so often occurs in the Scriptures, where the provisions of salvation are represented as a “feast,” or where the illustration is drawn from the act of eating or drinking.

Of thy house - Furnished by thy house, or in the place of public worship. God is represented as the Head or Father of a family, and as providing for the wants of his children. Compare Psalm 23:6; Psalm 27:4.

And thou shalt make them drink - In allusion to the provisions of salvation considered as adapted to satisfy the needs of the thirsty soul.

Of the river - The abundance. Not a running fountain; not a gentle bubbling rivulet; not a stream that would soon dry up; but a “river,” large; full; overflowing; inexhaustible.

Of thy pleasures - Furnishing happiness or pleasure such as “thine” is. The pious man has happiness of the same “kind” or “nature” as that of God. It is happiness in holiness or purity; happiness in doing good; happiness in the happiness of others. It is in this sense that the friend of God partakes of His pleasure or happiness. Compare 2 Peter 1:4. The following things, therefore, are taught by this verse:

(1) that God is happy;

(2) that religion makes man happy;

(3) that his happiness is of the same “kind” or “nature” as that of God;

(4) that this happiness is “satisfying” in its nature, or that it meets the real needs of the soul;

(5) that it is abundant, and leaves no want of the soul unsupplied; and

(6) that this happiness is to be found in an eminent degree in the “house of God,” or is closely connected with the public worship of God.

It is there that God has made provision for the wants of His people; and advancement in religion, and in the comforts of religion, will always be closely connected with the fidelity with which we attend on public worship.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

They shall be abundantly satisfied - ירוין yirveyun, they shall be saturated, as a thirsty field is by showers from heaven. Inebriaduntur, they shall be inebriated - Vulgate. That sal be drunken of the plenteuoste of thi house. - Old Psalter. This refers to the joyous expectation they had of being restored to their own land, and to the ordinances of the temple.

Of the river of thy pleasures - אדניך נחל nachal adaneycha, (or עדנך edencha, as in four MSS)., the river of thy Eden. They shall be restored to their paradisaical estate; for here is a reference to the river that ran through the garden of Eden, and watered it; Genesis 2:10. Or the temple, and under it the Christian Church, may be compared to this Eden; and the gracious influences of God to be had in his ordinances, to the streams by which that garden was watered, and its fertility promoted.


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