Deuteronomy 8:10 (LSB)

Passage

And so you will eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which He has given you.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

Deuteronomy 8:10 And so you will eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which He has given you.

Deuteronomy 8:11 “Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God by not keeping His commandments and His judgments and His statutes which I am commanding you today;

Deuteronomy 8:12 lest you eat and are satisfied and build good houses and live in them,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "satisfied", "shall", "bless", "yahweh", "good", "land", and "given". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "satisfied" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "a land where you will eat food..." into verse 11's "Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God...", so "satisfied" and "shall" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "satisfied" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.