Psalms 65:10
You water its ridges abundantly; You settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers; You bless its growth.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Thou waterest{H7301} its furrows{H1417} abundantly;{H7301} Thou settlest{H5181} the ridges{H8525} thereof: Thou makest it soft{H4127} with showers;{H7241} Thou blessest{H1288} the springing{H6780} thereof.
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Thou waterest{H7301} the ridges{H8525} thereof abundantly{H7301}{H8761)}: thou settlest{H5181}{H8763)} the furrows{H1417}{H8676)}{H1418} thereof: thou makest it soft{H4127}{H8787)} with showers{H7241}: thou blessest{H1288}{H8762)} the springing{H6780} thereof.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
The ryuer of God is full of waters, thou preparest man his corne, ad thus thou prouydest for the earth.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Thou waterest abundantly the furrowes thereof: thou causest the raine to descende into the valleies thereof: thou makest it soft with showres, and blessest the bud thereof.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Thou waterest her forowes, thou breakest downe her hillockes: thou makest it soft with the drops of rayne, and blessest the increase of it.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Webster's Bible (1833)
You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.
American Standard Version (1901)
Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof.
American Standard Version (1901)
Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.
World English Bible (2000)
You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.
Referenced Verses
- Ps 147:8 : 8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
- 1 Cor 3:6-7 : 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the growth. 7 So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the growth.
- Deut 32:2 : 2 My teaching shall drop as the rain, my words shall distill as the dew, as the gentle rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
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8 Those also who dwell in the farthest parts are afraid at Your signs; You make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
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13 He waters the hills from His chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
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23 Then shall he give the rain for your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be rich and plentiful: in that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.
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