Psalms 147:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:41 : 41 Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis. 28 You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.
  • Matt 6:26 : 26 Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?
  • Luke 12:24 : 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!
  • Ps 136:25 : 25 to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis. 16 You open your hand, and fill every living thing with the food they desire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:39-41
    3 verses
    85%

    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

    41Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

  • Luke 12:24
    76%

    24Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!

  • Ps 147:8
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    8He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

  • 1 Kgs 17:4
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    4Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”

  • 1 Kgs 17:6
    75%

    6The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.

  • Ps 104:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.

    28You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.

  • Lev 11:14-15
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    73%

    14the kite, the buzzard of any kind,

    15every kind of crow,

  • Deut 14:13-14
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    73%

    13the kite, the black kite, the dayyah after its species,

    14every raven after its species,

  • Ps 104:20-21
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    72%

    20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

    21The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.

  • Job 40:20
    72%

    20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

  • Ps 148:10
    72%

    10you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

  • Ps 104:11-12
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    71%

    11They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

    12The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes.

  • Ps 145:15
    71%

    15Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.

  • Ps 104:14
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    14He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

  • Ps 147:10
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    10He is not enamored with the strength of a horse, nor is he impressed by the warrior’s strong legs.

  • Job 35:11
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    11who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

  • Job 39:8
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    8It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

  • Job 36:31
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    31It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.

  • Ps 103:5
    70%

    5who satisfies your life with good things, so your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.

  • Matt 6:26
    69%

    26Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?

  • Ps 136:25
    69%

    25to the one who gives food to all living things, for his loyal love endures.

  • Ps 79:2
    69%

    2They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

  • Ps 8:7-8
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    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

    8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.

  • Job 12:7
    69%

    7Knowledge of God’s Wisdom“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

  • Ps 78:27
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    27He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.

  • Lam 4:4
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    4ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

  • Prov 30:17
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    17The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

  • Job 39:4
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    4Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

  • Prov 12:10
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    10A righteous person cares for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.

  • Nah 2:12
    69%

    12The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.

  • Ps 111:5
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    5He gives food to his faithful followers; he always remembers his covenant.

  • Ps 107:9
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    9For he has satisfied those who thirst, and those who hunger he has filled with food.

  • Ps 50:11
    68%

    11I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine.

  • Prov 6:8
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    8yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.

  • Job 5:10
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    10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • Isa 56:9
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    9The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

  • Deut 32:11
    68%

    11Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the LORD spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

  • Deut 28:26
    68%

    26Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

  • Ps 34:10
    68%

    10Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

  • Ps 59:15
    68%

    15They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

  • Jer 7:33
    68%

    33Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

  • Jer 34:20
    68%

    20I will hand them over to their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.