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16He should have fed{H8686)} them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied{H8686)} thee.
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; …
He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. …
And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-16)God, by the psalmist, here speaks to Israel, and in them to us, on whom the ends of the world are come. I. He demands their diligent and serious attention to what he was about to say (Ps. 81:8): “ Hear, O my people ! and who should hear me if my people will not? I have heard and answered thee; now wilt thou hear me? Hear what is said with the greatest solemnity and the most unquestionable certaint…
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