⁹ You visit the earth and water it;
    you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
    you provide the people with grain,
    for so you have prepared it.^(A)
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
    and blessing its growth.
¹¹ You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
¹² The pastures of the wilderness overflow;
    the hills gird themselves with joy;^(B)

²⁸ “Has the rain a father,
    or who has fathered the drops of dew?^(C)

⁸ “Or who shut in the sea with doors
    when it burst out from the womb,^(A)
9 when I made the clouds its garment
    and thick darkness its swaddling band,^(B)
10 and prescribed bounds for it,
    and set bars and doors,^(C)
11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
    and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?^(D)

²³ O children of Zion, be glad,
    and rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given the early rain^[a] for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    the early and the later rain, as before.^(A)