Psalm 65:10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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:
Footnotes
- 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).
- 65:10 God’s stream: the fertile waters of the earth derive from God’s fertile waters in the heavenly world.
Psalm 65:11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 you drench its plowed furrows,
and level its ridges.
With showers you keep it soft,
blessing its young sprouts.
Psalm 65:12-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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.
Footnotes
- 65:12 Paths: probably the tracks of God’s storm chariot dropping rain upon earth.
Psalm 65:14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 The pastures are clothed with flocks,
the valleys blanketed with grain;
they cheer and sing for joy.(A)
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