Psalms 81:16
He causes him to eat of the fat of wheat, || And I satisfy you [with] honey from a rock!
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In Context
15Those hating YHWH should have feigned [obedience] to Him, || And their time would last for all time.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He makes him ride on high places of earth, || And he eats increase of the fields, || And He makes him suck honey from a rock, || And oil out of the flint of a rock;
Judges 14:18And the men of the city say to him on the seventh day, before the sun goes in: “What [is] sweeter than honey? And what [is] stronger than a lion?” And he says to them: “Unless you had plowed with my heifer, || You had not found out my riddle.”
Job 29:6When washing my goings with butter, || And the firm rock [is] with me—streams of oil.
Psalms 147:14Who is making your border peace, || He satisfies you [with] the fat of wheat.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:9-16
Expostulation with Israel. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened… Read the whole commentary →