34:10 Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry,
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
36:8 They are filled with food from your house,
and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.
69:21 They put bitter poison 1 into my food,
and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink. 2
73:10 Therefore they have more than enough food to eat,
and even suck up the water of the sea. 3
104:14 He provides grass 4 for the cattle,
and crops for people to cultivate, 5
so they can produce food from the ground, 6
132:15 I will abundantly supply what she needs; 7
I will give her poor all the food they need. 8
1 tn According to BDB 912 s.v. II רֹאשׁ the term can mean “a bitter and poisonous plant.”
2 sn John 19:28-30 appears to understand Jesus’ experience on the cross as a fulfillment of this passage (or Ps 22:15). See the study note on the word “thirsty” in John 19:28.
3 tc Heb “therefore his people return [so Qere (marginal reading); Kethib (consonantal text) has “he brings back”] to here, and waters of abundance are sucked up by them.” The traditional Hebrew text (MT) defies explanation. The present translation reflects M. Dahood’s proposed emendations (Psalms [AB], 2:190) and reads the Hebrew text as follows: לָכֵן יִשְׂבְעוּם לֶחֶם וּמֵי מָלֵא יָמֹצּוּ לָמוֹ (“therefore they are filled with food, and waters of abundance they suck up for themselves”). The reading יִשְׂבְעוּם לֶחֶם (yisvÿ’um lekhem, “they are filled with food”) assumes (1) an emendation of יָשׁיּב עַמּוֹ (yashyyv, “he will bring back his people”) to יִשְׂבְעוּם (yisvÿ’um, “they will be filled”; a Qal imperfect third masculine plural form from שָׂבַע [sava’] with enclitic mem [ם]), and (2) an emendation of הֲלֹם (halom, “to here”) to לֶחֶם (“food”). The expression “be filled/fill with food” appears elsewhere at least ten times (see Ps 132:15, for example). In the second line the Niphal form יִמָּצוּ (yimmatsu, derived from מָצָה, matsah, “drain”) is emended to a Qal form יָמֹצּוּ (yamotsu), derived from מָצַץ (matsats, “to suck”). In Isa 66:11 the verbs שָׂבַע (sava’; proposed in Ps 73:10a) and מָצַץ (proposed in Ps 73:10b) are parallel. The point of the emended text is this: Because they are seemingly sovereign (v. 9), they become greedy and grab up everything they need and more.
4 tn Heb “causes the grass to sprout up.”
5 tn Heb “for the service of man” (see Gen 2:5).
6 tn Heb “to cause food to come out from the earth.”
7 tn Heb “I will greatly bless her provision.” The infinitive absolute is used to emphasize the verb.
8 tn Heb “her poor I will satisfy [with] food.”