Psalm 104:15

New American Bible - revised edition

wine to gladden their hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread to sustain the human heart.

Cross References

Genesis 18:5

Now that you have come to your servant, let me bring you a little food, that you may refresh yourselves; and afterward you may go on your way.” “Very well,” they replied, “do as you have said.”

2 Samuel 13:28

But Absalom had instructed his attendants: “Now watch! When Amnon is merry with wine and I say to you, ‘Kill Amnon,’ put him to death. Do not be afraid, for it is I who order you to do it. Be strong and act like warriors.” Death of Amnon.

Psalm 105:16

Then he called down a famine on the land, destroyed the grain that sustained them.

Psalm 23:5

You set a table before me in front of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Psalm 92:10

Indeed your enemies, Lord, indeed your enemies shall perish; all sinners shall be scattered.

Proverbs 31:6

Give strong drink to anyone who is perishing, and wine to the embittered;

Proverbs 31:7

When they drink, they will forget their misery, and think no more of their troubles.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is made for merriment and wine gives joy to the living, but money answers for everything.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is like the wise person, and who knows the explanation of things? Wisdom illumines the face and transforms a grim countenance.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favors your works.

Isaiah 3:1

The Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judah Support and staff— all support of bread, all support of water:

Isaiah 55:10

Yet just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down And do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, Giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats,

Jeremiah 31:12

Shouting, they shall mount the heights of Zion, they shall come streaming to the Lord’s blessings: The grain, the wine, and the oil, flocks of sheep and cattle; They themselves shall be like watered gardens, never again neglected.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, if a land sins against me by breaking faith, and I stretch out my hand against it, breaking its staff of bread and setting famine loose upon it, cutting off from it human being and beast alike—

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me: Son of man, I am about to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem so they shall eat bread which they have weighed out anxiously and drink water which they have measured out fearfully.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I loose against you the deadly arrows of starvation that I am sending to destroy you, I will increase starvation and will break your staff of bread.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Zechariah 10:7

Then Ephraim will be like a hero, and their hearts will be cheered as by wine. Their children will see and rejoice— their hearts will exult in the Lord.

Mark 14:23

Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

Luke 7:46

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment.

Ephesians 5:18

And do not get drunk on wine, in which lies debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Deuteronomy 28:40

Though you have olive trees throughout your country, you will have no oil for ointment, for your olives will drop off.

Deuteronomy 8:3

He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your ancestors, so you might know that it is not by bread alone that people live, but by all that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.

Hebrews 1:9

You loved justice and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions”;

1 John 2:20

But you have the anointing that comes from the holy one, and you all have knowledge.

Judges 19:5

On the fourth day they rose early in the morning and he prepared to go. But the young woman’s father said to his son-in-law, “Fortify yourself with a little food; you can go later on.”

Judges 9:13

But the vine answered them, ‘Must I give up my wine that cheers gods and human beings, and go off to hold sway over the trees?’

Judges 9:9

But the olive tree answered them, ‘Must I give up my rich oil, whereby gods and human beings are honored, and go off to hold sway over the trees?’