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Distant peoples stand in awe of your marvels;
    the places of morning and evening you make resound with joy.
10 [a]You visit the earth and water it,
    make it abundantly fertile.(A)
God’s stream[b] is filled with water;
    you supply their grain.
Thus do you prepare it:

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Footnotes

  1. 65:10–14 Apparently a description of the agricultural year, beginning with the first fall rains that soften the hard sun-baked soil (Ps 65:9–10).
  2. 65:10 God’s stream: the fertile waters of the earth derive from God’s fertile waters in the heavenly world.

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.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
    and blessing its growth.

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You show your care for the land by sending rain;
    you make it rich and fertile.
You fill the streams with water;
    you provide the earth with crops.
This is how you do it:
10     you send abundant rain on the plowed fields
    and soak them with water;
you soften the soil with showers
    and cause the young plants to grow.

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You visit the earth and (A)cause it to overflow;
You greatly (B)enrich it;
The [a](C)stream of God is full of water;
You prepare their (D)grain, for so You prepare [b]the earth.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
You [c]settle its ridges,
You soften it (E)with showers,
You bless its growth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 65:9 Or channel
  2. Psalm 65:9 Lit it
  3. Psalm 65:10 Or smooth

You care for the land and water it;(A)
    you enrich it abundantly.(B)
The streams of God are filled with water
    to provide the people with grain,(C)
    for so you have ordained it.[a]
10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
    you soften it with showers(D) and bless its crops.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 65:9 Or for that is how you prepare the land