Psalm 104:15 {103:15}
Good News Translation
and produce wine to make us happy, olive oil to make us cheerful, and bread to give us strength.

New Revised Standard Version
and wine to gladden the human heart, oil to make the face shine, and bread to strengthen the human heart.

Contemporary English Version
wine to cheer us up, olive oil for our skin, and grain for our health.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

wine

Psalm 23:5 Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!

Judges 9:13 And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees?

Proverbs 31:6 Give strong drink to them that are sad; and wine to them that are grieved in mind:

Ecclesiastes 10:19 For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money.

Jeremiah 31:12 And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.

Zechariah 9:15-17 The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be inebriated as it were with wine, and they shall be filled as bowls, and as the horns of the altar. . . .

Mark 14:23 And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank of it.

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

oil to make his, etc.

Psalm 92:10 But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

Deuteronomy 28:40 Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.

Judges 9:9 And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?

Ecclesiastes 8:1 The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Songs 1:2-4 Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee. . . .

Hebrews 1:9 Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

1 John 2:20 But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things.

bread

Psalm 105:16 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

Leviticus 26:26 After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,

Deuteronomy 8:3 He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Isaiah 3:1 For behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall take away from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of water.

Ezekiel 4:16 And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress.

Ezekiel 5:16 I the Lord have spoken it: When I shall send upon them the grievous arrows of famine, which shall bring death, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will gather together famine against you: and I will break among you the staff of bread.

Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
14Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: 15And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.16The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted:…
Cross References
Luke 7:46
My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But she with ointment hath anointed my feet.

Genesis 14:18
But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God,

Genesis 18:5
And I will set a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart, afterwards you shall pass on: for therefore are you come aside to your servant. And they said: Do as thou hast spoken.

Judges 9:13
And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees?

Judges 19:5
But on the fourth day, arising early in the morning, he desired to depart. But his father in law kept him, and said to him: Taste first a little bread, and strengthen thy stomach, and so thou shalt depart.

Judges 19:8
But when morning was come, the Levite prepared to go on his journey. And his father in law said to him again: I beseech thee to take a little meat, and strengthening thyself, till the day be farther advanced, afterwards thou mayest depart. And they ate together.

Psalm 23:5
Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth me, how goodly is it!

Psalm 36:6
Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

Psalm 92:10
But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.

Psalm 104:16
The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted:

Psalm 141:5
The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to them that are sad; and wine to them that are grieved in mind:

Ecclesiastes 2:3
I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 10:19
For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money.

Isaiah 61:3
To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Psalm 104:14
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