Psalms 107:38
He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
BSB
ASV
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; And he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
KJV
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly,.... Not only their fields and vineyards are blessed with an increase, but these husbandmen themselves; as man at his first creation was bid to do, being blessed of God; and as the Israelites were in Egypt, Gen 1:28 and which may spiritually denote the great number of converts to Christian churches, especially in the latter day, Jer 30:
And He settled there the hungry, and they established a city for habitation, the church. There He sowed fields according to the fallen seed into good and rich land yielding a hundredfold, and planted vineyards. For the vines are the disciples of the Lord, who also bore fruit of birth. And He blessed them and they multiplied greatly. But the Lord, who saves both humans and animals, did not deem the smallest among them to be insignificant; for it is written: "And He did not diminish their cattle."
He punishes the wicked by destroying the sources of fertility, or, in mercy, gives fruitfulness to deserts, which become the homes of a busy and successful agricultural population. By a permitted misrule and tyranny, this scene of prosperity is changed to one of adversity.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
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I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.
He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
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Deuteronomy 7:14You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
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The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
