Psalms 65:10
8 Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.
9 You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
11 You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
- KJV
- Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
- WEB
- You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.
- ASV
- Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof.
- DARBY
- Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.
- BLB
- soaking its furrows, descending [on] its ridges; with showers You soften it; its springing up You bless.
- ÅB
- Du vannet dens furer, senket dens plogland; du bløtte den med regnskurer, velsignet dens grøde.
- OTB
- Du vanner dens furer rikelig,
Du jevner dens rygger,
Du mykner den med regnskurer,
Du velsigner dens vekst. - B1930
- Du vannet dens furer, senket dens plogland; du bløtte den med regnskurer, velsignet dens grøde.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 3:6–7
I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
Read in contextPsalms 147:8
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:2
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
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