Psalm 65:9-11

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Psalm 65:9 tn The verb form is a Polel from שׁוּק (shuq, “be abundant”), a verb which appears only here and in Joel 2:24 and 3:13, where it is used in the Hiphil stem and means “overflow.”
2. Psalm 65:9 tn Heb “you greatly enrich it.”
3. Psalm 65:9 tn Heb “[with] a channel of God full of water.” The divine name is probably may be used here in a superlative sense to depict a very deep stream (“a stream fit for God,” as it were).
4. Psalm 65:9 tn The pronoun apparently refers to the people of the earth, mentioned in v. 8.
5. Psalm 65:9 tn Heb “for thus [referring to the provision of rain described in the first half of the verse] you prepare it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix attached to the verb “prepare” refers back to the “earth,” which is a feminine noun with regard to grammatical form.
6. Psalm 65:10 tn Heb “saturating” [the form is an infinitive absolute].
7. Psalm 65:10 tn Heb “flatten, cause to sink.”
8. Psalm 65:10 tn Heb “trenches,” or “furrows.”
9. Psalm 65:10 tn Heb “soften it,” that is, the earth.
10. Psalm 65:10 tn Heb “its vegetation you bless.” Divine “blessing” often involves endowing an object with special power or capacity.
11. Psalm 65:11 tn Heb “your good,” which refers here to agricultural blessings.
12. Psalm 65:11 tn Heb “and your paths drip with abundance.”