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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:
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.

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.
11 You crown the year with your bounty,(E)
    and your carts overflow with abundance.(F)

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Footnotes

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