SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:10
Y les dijo: Id, comed grosuras, y bebed vino dulce, y enviad porciones a los que no tienen aparejado; porque día santo es a nuestro Seņor; y no os entristezcáis, porque el gozo del SEŅOR es vuestra fortaleza.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 8:10
Verse 10. Eat the fat, and drink the sweet] Eat and drink the best that you have; and while ye are feeding yourselves in the fear of the Lord, remember those who cannot feast; and send portions to them, that the joy and the thanksgiving may be general. Let the poor have reason to rejoice as well as you. For the joy of the Lord is your strength.] This is no gluttonous and drunken festival that enervates the body, and enfeebles the mind: from your religious feast your bodies will acquire strength and your minds power and fervour, so that you shall be able to DO HIS will, and to do it cheerfully. Religious joy, properly tempered with continual dependence on the help of God, meekness of mind, and self- diffidence, is a powerful means of strengthening the soul. In such a state every duty is practicable, and every duty delightful. In such a frame of mind no man an ever fell, and in such a state of mind the general health of the body is much improved; a cheerful heart is not only a continual feast, but also a continual medicine.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. Then he said unto them , etc.] Nehemiah the Tirshatha or governor: go your way ; to their own houses, and refresh themselves; it being noon, and they had stood many hours attentive to the reading and expounding of the law: eat the fat, and drink the sweet : not a common meal, but a feast, consisting of the richest provisions, the best of food and liquors and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared ; for the poor, who had no food at home provided for them; the widow, fatherless, and stranger, who at festivals were to partake of the entertainment, ( Deuteronomy 16:11) for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be you sorry ; confirming what the Levites had said and exhorted to, ( Nehemiah 8:9) for the joy of the Lord is your strength ; to rejoice, as the Lord commanded them on such days as these, was a means both of increasing their bodily strength and their inward strength, and of fitting them the more to perform their duty to God and men with cheerfulness, which sorrow and heaviness made unfit for; and the joy which has the Lord for its object, and comes from him, is the cause of renewing spiritual strength, so as to run and not be weary, walk and not faint, in the ways of God.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-12 - It was a good sign that their hearts were tender, when they heard the words of the law. The people were to send portions to those for who nothing was prepared. It is the duty of a religious feast, as well a of a religious fast, to draw out the soul to the hungry; God's bount should make us bountiful. We must not only give to those that offe themselves, but send to those out of sight. Their strength consisted i joy in the Lord. The better we understand God's word, the more comfor we find in it; the darkness of trouble arises from the darkness of ignorance.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 להם לכו 1980 אכלו 398 משׁמנים 4924 ושׁתו 8354 ממתקים 4477 ושׁלחו 7971 מנות 4490 לאין 369 נכון 3559 לו כי 3588 קדושׁ 6918 היום 3117 לאדנינו 136 ואל 408 תעצבו 6087 כי 3588 חדות 2304 יהוה 3068 היא 1931 מעזכם׃ 4581
