Psalms 104:28

"These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season."

Key Reflection

In Psalms 104:28, David reflects on God's provision of nature for humanity’s sustenance. The original audience would have recognized this as a reference to how animals and plants serve as food sources. Just as the earth produces resources that support life, so too does God directly intervene at specific times to ensure that all creatures are fed, emphasizing His ongoing role in sustaining creation and highlighting the interconnectedness of nature under divine care.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

That thou givest them they gather -What thou dost place before them they collect. They have no resources of their own. They can invent nothing; they cannot vary their food by art, as man does; they cannot make use of reason, as man does, or of skill, in preparing it, to suit and pamper the appetite. It comes prepared for them direct from the hand of God. Thou openest thine hand -As one does who bestows a gift on another. The point in the passage is, that they receive it immediately from God, and that they are wholly dependent on him for it. They have not to labor to prepare it, but it is made ready for them, and they have only to gather it up.

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