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I Will Exalt You, My God and King

Psalms 145:16

In 11 translations

BSB
You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
KJV
Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
WEB
You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
ASV
Thou openest thy hand, And satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
LSV
Opening Your hand, and satisfying || The desire of every living thing.
YLT
Opening Thy hand, and satisfying The desire of every living thing.
DBY
Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
DRC144:16
Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature.
GNV
Thou openest thine hand, and fillest all things liuing of thy good pleasure.
JPS
Thou openest Thy hand, and satisfiest every living thing with favour.
LXXE144:16
Thou openest thine hands, and fillest every living thing with pleasure.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
פּוֹתֵ֥חַ אֶת־יָדֶ֑ךָ וּמַשְׂבִּ֖יעַ לְכָל־חַ֣י רָצֽוֹן׃
LXX-Br144:16
Ἀνοίγεις σὺ τὰς χεῖράς σου, καὶ ἐμπιπλᾷς πᾶν ζῶον εὐδοκίας.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 104:28When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
  • Psalms 107:9For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
  • Psalms 132:15I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.
  • Job 38:27to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 144:16 in some Bibles
  • 145:16 in most Bibles

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