Deuteronomy 30:9

9 The LORD your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

Deuteronomy 30:9 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 30:9

And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of
thine hand
In every manufacture, trade, or business of life in which they should be employed; the meaning is, that the Lord will greatly bless them in all that they shall set their hands to in a lawful way; so that they shall abound in good things, and have enough and to spare, a redundancy of the good things of life, great plenty of them:

in the fruit of thy body;
abundance of children:

and in the fruit of thy cattle;
a large increase of oxen and sheep:

and in the fruit of thy land for good;
it being by the blessing of God on their labours restored to its former fertility, though now barren through want of inhabitants, and the slothfulness of those that are possessed of it; for travellers observe ^F15, the soil is still good, was it properly manured and cultivated:

for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced
over thy fathers;
particularly in the days of Solomon and David, when the people of Israel enjoyed plenty of all good things, and so they will hereafter; see ( Hosea 2:15 Hosea 2:21 Hosea 2:22 ) ; The Targum of Jonathan is,

``the Word of the Lord will return to rejoice''

See ( Jeremiah 32:41 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 See Shaw's Travels, p. 336. Ed. 2.

Deuteronomy 30:9 In-Context

7 The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

8 You shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his mitzvot which I command you this day.

9 The LORD your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

10 if you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his mitzvot and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

11 For this mitzvah which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.