Deuteronomy 8:9 (WEB)

Passage

a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 8:7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

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

Deuteronomy 8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

Deuteronomy 8:10 You shall eat and be full, 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, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "land", "shall", "bread", "without", "scarceness", "lack", and "anything". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "land" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "a land of wheat and barley and..." into verse 10's "You shall eat and be full and...", so "land" 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 "land" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.