Psalm 65:10 Parallel Translations

You drench plowed fields with rain and level their clumps of soil. You soften them with showers and bless what grows in them.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

ASV:

Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

ERV:

Thou waterest her furrows abundantly; thou settlest the ridges thereof: thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

JPS:

Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof.

WBS:

Thou waterest the ridges of it abundantly: thou settlest the furrows of it: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing of it.

WEB:

You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

YLT:

Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

Psalm 65:10 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 32:2 "Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As the droplets on the fresh grass And as the showers on the herb.

Psalm 72:6 May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, Like showers that water the earth.

Psalm 147:8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who provides rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

65:10 Thou {k} waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
(k) By this description he shows that all the order of nature is a testimony of God's love toward us, who causes all creatures to serve our need.

WES:

65:10 Bringest down - For the rain dissolves the high and hard clods of earth.

MHC:

65:6-13 That Almighty strength which sets fast the mountains, upholds the believer. That word which stills the stormy ocean, and speaks it into a calm, can silence our enemies. How contrary soever light and darkness are to each other, it is hard to say which is most welcome. Does the watchman wait for the morning? so does the labourer earnestly desire the shades of evening. Some understand it of the morning and evening sacrifices. We are to look upon daily worship, both alone and with our families, to be the most needful of our daily occupations, the most delightful of our daily comforts. How much the fruitfulness of this lower part of the creation depends upon the influence of the upper, is easy to observe; every good and perfect gift is from above. He who enriches the earth, which is filled with man's sins, by his abundant and varied bounty, can neither want power nor will to feed the souls of his people. Temporal mercies to us unworthy creatures, shadow forth more important blessings. The rising of the Sun of righteousness, and the pouring forth of the influences of the Holy Spirit, that river of God, full of the waters of life and salvation, render the hard, barren, worthless hearts of sinners fruitful in every good work, and change the face of nations more than the sun and rain change the face of nature. Wherever the Lord passes, by his preached gospel, attended by his Holy Spirit, his paths drop fatness, and numbers are taught to rejoice in and praise him. They will descend upon the pastures of the wilderness, all the earth shall hear and embrace the gospel, and bring forth abundantly the fruits of righteousness which are, through Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father. Manifold and marvellous, O Lord, are thy works, whether of nature or of grace; surely in loving-kindness hast thou made them all.

CONC:

Abundantly Bless Blessest Blessing Clods Crop Crops Deepened Drench Filled Full Furrow Furrows Growth Lands Level Makest Ploughed Ridges Satiate Sending Settle Settlest Settling Showers Slopes Smooth Smoothest Soft Soften Softening Springing Thereof Waterest Watering

Abundantly Bless Blessest Clods Crop Crops Deepened Drench Earth Filled Full Furrow Furrows Growth Level Makest Ploughed Satiate Sending Settle Settling Showers Slopes Smooth Soft Springing Thereof Water Waterest Watering

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