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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.

10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
    you soften it with showers(A) and bless its crops.

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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:
11     you drench its plowed furrows,
    and level its ridges.
With showers you keep it soft,
    blessing its young sprouts.

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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.

10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
    you soften it with showers(A) and bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your bounty,(B)
    and your carts overflow with abundance.(C)

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12 You adorn the year with your bounty;
    your paths[a] drip with fruitful rain.
13 The meadows of the wilderness also drip;
    the hills are robed with joy.

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Footnotes

  1. 65:12 Paths: probably the tracks of God’s storm chariot dropping rain upon earth.

12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;(A)
    the hills are clothed with gladness.(B)
13 The meadows are covered with flocks(C)
    and the valleys are mantled with grain;(D)
    they shout for joy and sing.(E)

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