Psalms 104:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

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  • Judg 9:13 : 13 But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?
  • Ps 23:5 : 5 You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.
  • Ps 92:10 : 10 But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox: the best oil is flowing on my head.
  • Eccl 10:19 : 19 A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.
  • Prov 31:6 : 6 Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
  • Judg 9:9 : 9 But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?
  • Eccl 8:1 : 1 Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
  • Eccl 9:7 : 7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
  • Song 1:2-4 : 2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine. 3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love. 4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
  • Isa 3:1 : 1 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;
  • Jer 31:12 : 12 So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.
  • Ezek 4:16 : 16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
  • Ezek 5:16 : 16 When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end to you; and, further, I will take away your necessary food.
  • Ezek 14:13 : 13 Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:
  • Zech 9:15-17 : 15 The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar. 16 And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land. 17 For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.
  • Mark 14:23 : 23 And he took a cup, and when he had given praise, he gave it to them: and they all had a drink from it.
  • Luke 7:46 : 46 You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet.
  • Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;
  • Heb 1:9 : 9 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.
  • 1 John 2:20 : 20 And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.
  • Ps 105:16 : 16 And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.
  • Gen 18:5 : 5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.
  • Lev 26:26 : 26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
  • Deut 8:3 : 3 And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.
  • Deut 28:40 : 40 Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.

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    7 Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

  • Ps 104:13-14
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    13 He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

    14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

  • Eccl 9:7-8
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    7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

    8 Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

  • Zech 9:17
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    17 For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

  • Ps 104:16
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    16 The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

  • Prov 15:13
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    13 A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

  • Eccl 3:13
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    13 And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

  • Prov 31:6-7
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    6 Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

    7 Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

  • Prov 3:10
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    10 So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

  • Eccl 10:19
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    19 A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.

  • Prov 15:30
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    30 The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.

  • Prov 12:25
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    25 Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

  • Eccl 5:18-19
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    18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

    19 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

  • Isa 24:7
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    7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

  • 2 Chr 2:15
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    15 So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

  • Prov 17:22
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    22 A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

  • Eccl 2:24
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    24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

  • Joel 2:24
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    24 And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.

  • Prov 15:15
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    15 All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

  • Ps 128:2
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    2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

  • Jer 31:12
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    12 So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

  • Prov 9:5
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    5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.

  • Job 24:11
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    11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • Prov 27:9
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    9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

  • Prov 21:17
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    17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

  • Deut 32:13-14
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    13 He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

    14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

  • Judg 9:13
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    13 But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?

  • Eccl 10:17
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    17 Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.

  • Ps 107:37
    69%

    37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • 1 Chr 16:3
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    3 And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.

  • Eccl 11:7
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    7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

  • Isa 25:6
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    6 And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.

  • Ps 36:8
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    8 The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

  • Prov 3:8
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    8 This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Prov 16:15
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    15 In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.

  • Deut 14:26
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    26 And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

  • Prov 4:22
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    22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

  • Ps 132:15
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    15 My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.

  • Ps 107:9
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    9 He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.