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Psalms 136:25
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He gives food to every creature.
Who gives food to every creature; For his lovingkindness endures forever.
Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.
He gives food to every living creature. His love continues forever.
to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.
Who gives food to all flesh, For His lovingkindness endures forever;
Who gives food to all flesh, For His faithfulness is everlasting.
Who gives food to every creature; For his lovingkindness endures forever.
Which giueth foode to all flesh: for his mercie endureth for euer.
Who gives food to all flesh,For His lovingkindness endures forever.
He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
He gives food to all who live. God's love never fails.
who provides food for every living creature, for his grace continues forever.
Who giveth food to all flesh, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.
He provides food for all living things. His faithful love will last forever.
Who gives food to all flesh; for his mercy endures for ever.
He gives food to every living creature; his love is eternal.
The one who gives food to all flesh, for his loyal love endures forever.
who gives food to all flesh; for His mercy endures forever.
O geue thankes vnto the God of heauen, for his mercy endureth for euer.
Who giveth food to all flesh; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever.
Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Who giveth food to all flesh, for His mercy endureth for ever.
Who giueth foode to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for euer.
Who geueth foode vnto all creatures: for his mercy endureth for euer.
Who gives food to all flesh; for his mercy endures for ever.
He giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Which yyueth mete to ech fleisch. Knouleche ye to God of heuene.
Who gives food to all flesh; For his loving-kindness [endures] forever.
Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
Who gives food to all flesh, For His mercy endures forever.
He gives food to every living thing. His faithful love endures forever.
He gives food to all men, for His loving-kindness lasts forever.
who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Who giveth food to all flesh, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.
(135-25) Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures for ever.
Giving food to all flesh, For to the age [is] His kindness.
Who gives food to all flesh, For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
who giveth food: Psalms 104:27, Psalms 145:15, Psalms 147:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:29 - to you Genesis 6:21 - General Job 36:31 - he giveth Psalms 104:14 - that he Psalms 146:7 - which giveth food
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who giveth food to all flesh,.... To all creatures; the beasts of the field, and fowls of the air, the young ravens that cry,
Psalms 145:15. To all men their daily food; to Jews and Gentiles, good men and bad men, Matthew 6:11; and spiritual food to all that belong to Christ, who are flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone; even himself, the bread of life, the wholesome truths of the Gospel, and its refreshing ordinances;
for his mercy [endureth] for ever; he continues to have compassion on his creatures, and opens his hand of providence, and supplies their wants; he is ever mindful of his covenant of grace and mercy, and therefore gives meat to them that fear him, Psalms 111:5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who giveth food to all flesh - To all living things: all in the air, on the earth, in the waters. See the notes at Psalms 104:27-28; compare Psalms 115:16.
For his mercy ... - All this is a proof of his benignity and kindness. To see this, it would be necessary to have a view of what is done every day in the providence of God to meet the needs of the countless multitudes thus dependent on him. Let it be remembered, also, that the needs of each insect, fowl, animal; fish, is to be provided for as an individual - and who can take in a full view of the care, the wisdom, the benevolence of what is done every day by the Father of all in providing for their needs? Let it be remembered, also, that this has been continned without ceasing from the foundation of the world, and will be demanded until its close, and then let us try to imagine what is necessary to be done to provide for the needs of all the dwellers in distant worlds - and who, in this view, can form any proper estimate of the wisdom and the goodness of God?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 136:25. Giveth food to all flesh — By whose universal providence every intellectual and animal being is supported and preserved. The appointing every living thing food, and that sort of food which is suited to its nature, (and the nature and habits of animals are endlessly diversified,) is an overwhelming proof of the wondrous providence, wisdom, and goodness of God.
The Vulgate, Arabic, and Anglo-Saxon, add a twenty-seventh verse, by repeating here Psalms 136:3 very unnecessarily.
ANALYSIS OF THE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIXTH PSALM
This Psalm has the same argument with the preceding. It is divided into three parts: -
I. A general exhortation to praise God for his goodness and majesty, Psalms 136:1-3.
II. A declaration of that goodness and majesty in their effects, Psalms 136:4-10.
III. A conclusion fit for the exordium, Psalms 136:26.
1. Of his creation, Psalms 136:4-10.
2. Of his providence in preserving the Church, and punishing her enemies, Psalms 136:10-25.
3. That his providence extends to all his creatures, Psalms 136:25.
I. In the three first verses the prophet invites us to praise God for his mercy and goodness. And in these three verses expositors find the Trinity: -
1. Jehovah. God the Father, who is the Fountain of being.
2. God the Son. Who is God of gods, and over all.
3. The Holy Ghost. Who is Lord of lords.
The psalmist's reasons for calling upon us thus to praise him are, "for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever."
The prophet now begins to praise God for his wonderful works, and which he alone was able to do.
1. "Who hath done wonderful things." Such as the work of creation.
2. "For his mercy endureth for ever." In sustaining and preserving all things.
"To him give thanks" for the wisdom manifested in the heavens; for, contemplate them as we may, they appear full of beauty, order, and splendour.
Praise him for the formation of the earth, as the mansion of man.
Give thanks "to him that stretched out," c. Naturally this could not be, because the earth is heavier than water: but God hath made furrows for the waters to flow into, that man and beast might live on the earth.
"For his mercy endureth for ever." In this there was a threefold mercy: -
1. In reference to the earth. To make it something of nothing.
2. As respects the water. To prepare for it a settled place.
3. In regard to man. To whom he gave the earth uncovered from water, and yet plentifully supplied with rivers and fruits.
The third instance is the two great luminaries and the stars, in the three following verses. These do astonishingly adorn the heaven, and profit the earth. The sun and moon illuminate the earth, and comfort us. Perhaps the prophet instances these because they are alike blessings bestowed upon and shared by all the world.
II. From the wonderful works of the creation the prophet descends to those of his providence, in the preservation of the Church and instances it in the redemption of his people Israel from the land of Egypt, c., dwelling at large upon it, Psalms 136:10-22.
In these verses the prophet records how God performed to Israel all the offices of a good Captain, Guide, Leader, and even Father for he fed them with bread from heaven, gave them water out of the rock, caused that their clothes wore not out, cured their sick, defended them from their enemies, c.
All this God did for them before they entered Canaan. And then the prophet reminds them how they rebelled against God, and he humbled them by bringing the Philistines and the Babylonian kings against them, who conquered and subjected them: but when they cried to him, he turned their captivity for "he remembered us when we were in our low estate," c. "and hath redeemed us from our enemies," c.
Lastly, that his goodness is not only extended over his people, but his creatures to all flesh, which word signifies every thing that hath life.
III. He concludes as he began, "O give thanks unto the God of heaven," c. The prophet calls him the God of heaven, because he alone made the heavens, and has his throne there, having the whole world under him and by his wisdom and providence he preserves, moderates, and governs all things.
