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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.
12 You adorn the year with your bounty;
    your paths[c] drip with fruitful rain.

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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.
  3. 65:12 Paths: probably the tracks of God’s storm chariot dropping rain upon earth.

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)
12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;(D)
    the hills are clothed with gladness.(E)

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