Psalm 81:16 {80:17}
Good News Translation
But I would feed you with the finest wheat and satisfy you with wild honey."

New Revised Standard Version
I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Contemporary English Version
But I would feed you with the finest bread and with the best honey until you were full."

New American Bible
But Israel I will feed with the finest wheat, I will satisfy them with honey from the rock.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

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Psalm 147:14 Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

Deuteronomy 32:13,14 He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone, . . .

Joel 2:24 And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall overflow with wine, and oil.

finest of the wheat.

Judges 14:8,9,18 And after some days, returning to take her, he went aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold there was a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, and a honey-comb. . . .

1 Samuel 14:25,26 And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was honey upon the ground. . . .

Job 29:6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

Context
Sing for Joy to God, Our Strength
15The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever. 16And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.
Cross References
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

Deuteronomy 32:13
He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,

Deuteronomy 32:14
Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

Job 29:6
When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

Psalm 147:14
Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

Psalm 81:15
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