Psalms 145:15
in Psalms 145The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The eyes of all wait for thee; And thou givest them their food in due season.
KJV
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
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This verse in Psalms 145
Commentary
9 notes on this verseThe eyes of all wait upon thee. They have learned to look to thee: it has become their nature to turn to thee for all they want. As children look to a father for all they need, so do the creatures look to God, the all sufficient Provider. It were well if all men had the eye of faith, and if all waited therewith upon the Lord. And thou givest them their meat in due season. They wait, and God gives.
This site's exposition
The eyes of all look to You
on Psalms 145:15-16
The eyes of all look up and the food comes in its season. Verse 16 has the hand opened and the desire of every living thing satisfied. Spurgeon read the open hand as giving easily and at once.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
"The eyes of all hope upon Thee, and Thou givest them food in due season" (ver. 15). Just as when thou refreshest a sick man in due season, when he ought to receive, then Thou givest, and what he ought to receive, that Thou givest. Sometimes then men long, and he giveth not: he who tendeth, knoweth the time to give. Wherefore say I this, brethren? Lest any one be faint, if perchance he hath not been heard, when making some righteous request of God. For when he maketh any unrighteous request, he is heard to his punishment: but when making some righteous request of God, if perchance he have not been heard, let him not be down-hearted, let him not faint, let his eyes wait for the food, which He giveth in due season. When He giveth not, He therefore giveth not, lest that which He giveth do harm. ..."Thou givest them meat in due season."
And the apostle [Paul] added, "For of him, and through him and in him are all things." What does "of him" mean? It means that the nature of everything exists according to his will and that he is the creator of everything that has come into existence. What does "through him" mean? It means that the creation and preservation of all things is his gift. What does "in him" mean?
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The inferior creatures indeed have not the knowledge of God, nor are capable of it, and yet they are said to wait upon God, because they seek their food according to the instinct which the God of nature has put into them (and they sow not, neither do they reap, Matt. vi.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The eyes of all wait upon thee. They have learned to look to thee: it has become their nature to turn to thee for all they want. As children look to a father for all they need, so do the creatures look to God, the all sufficient Provider. It were well if all men had the eye of faith, and if all waited therewith upon the Lord. And thou givest them their meat in due season. They wait, and God gives. The thought of this brings God so near to our poet prophet that he is again speaking with God after the style of thee and thou. Is it to be wondered at when the Lord is feeding the hungry all around us, —giving food to all creatures, and to ourselves among them? Like a flock of sheep the creatures stand around the Lord as their great Shepherd; all eyes are to his hand expecting to receive their food; nor are they disappointed, for when the hour comes suitable provender is ready for each creature. Observe the punctuality of the Lord in giving food at meal time, —in the season when it is due. This he does for all, and each living thing has its own season, so that the Lord of heaven is feeding his great flock both by day and by night, during every moment of time.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
The eyes of all wait upon thee - What a fine figure! The young of all animals look up to their parents for food. God is here represented as the universal Father, providing food for every living creature. In due season - The kind of food that is suited to every animal, and to all the stages of life in each animal. This is a wonderful mystery. It is a fact that all are thus provided for; but how is it done? All expect it from God, and not one is dsappointed! For,
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The eyes of all wait upon thee - Margin, Look unto thee. All creatures, on the land, in the air, in the waters; all in heaven; all throughout the universe. That is, It is as if all directed their eyes to thee imploringly for the supply of their needs. To no one else can they look for those things which are needful for them. A universe thus looks every day, every hour, every moment, to its God! How sublime the scene! And thou givest them their meat in due season - See the notes at Psa 104:27, where the same words occur.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עֵֽינֵי־ | ʾeinei- | [the] eyes of | H5869 → | 887 times |
| כֹ֭ל | khol | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֵלֶ֣יךָ | ʾeleikha | to you | H413 → | 5510 times |
| יְשַׂבֵּ֑רוּ | yesaberu | they wait | H7663 → | 8 times |
| וְאַתָּ֤ה | veatah | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| נֽוֹתֵן־ | noten- | [are] giving | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לָהֶ֖ם | lahem | to them | ||
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אָכְלָ֣ם | ʾakhelam | food their | H400 → | 43 times |
| בְּעִתּֽוֹ׃ | beito | at appropriate time its | H6256 → | 296 times |
עֵֽינֵי־[the] eyes of
ʾeinei-H5869 →887 times
כֹ֭לall
kholH3605 →5413 times
אֵלֶ֣יךָto you
ʾeleikhaH413 →5510 times
יְשַׂבֵּ֑רוּthey wait
yesaberuH7663 →8 times
וְאַתָּ֤הand you
veatahH859 →1094 times
נֽוֹתֵן־[are] giving
noten-H5414 →2011 times
לָהֶ֖םto them
lahem
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
אָכְלָ֣םfood their
ʾakhelamH400 →43 times
בְּעִתּֽוֹ׃at appropriate time its
beitoH6256 →296 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 6:26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
it leads to
- Psalms 147:9
He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Job 38:41
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 145:15–16
The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Matthew 10:29–31
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
- Luke 12:24–32
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
- Psalms 147:9
Through
Acts 17:25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
it leads to
- Psalms 50:8–13
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Isaiah 42:5
This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to…
- Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Psalms 50:8–13
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Spirit 2.9.91; Augustine of Hippo, On the Psalms, Psalm 145; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 7; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.