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Psalm 105:40-42
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 105:40-42
New Catholic Bible
40 At their request he supplied them with quail,
and he filled them with bread from heaven.[a]
41 He split open a rock and water gushed forth,
flowing through the wilderness like a river.[b]
42 For he remembered the sacred promise
that he had made to Abraham, his servant.
Footnotes
- Psalm 105:40 Bread from heaven: the psalmist names it thusly because it was the immediate gift of the heavenly Father in contrast to the ordinary natural bread. See also note on Ps 78:25 and Christ’s use of this phrase in Jn 6:31.
- Psalm 105:41 The psalmist concludes his account of God’s saving deeds for Israel with one of the most admired of them: creating a river of water from a rock in the wilderness (see Ps 114:8; Isa 43:19f).
