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Psalm 68:9a

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68:9O God, you cause abundant showers to fall18 on your chosen people.19

When they20 are tired, you sustain them,21

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Footnotes

  1. 18 The verb נוּף (nuf, “cause rain to fall”) is a homonym of the more common נוּף (“brandish”).
  2. 19 Heb “[on] your inheritance.” This refers to Israel as God’s specially chosen people (see Pss 28:9; 33:12; 74:2; 78:62, 71; 79:1; 94:5, 14; 106:40). Some take “your inheritance” with what follows, but the vav (ו) prefixed to the following word (note וְנִלְאָה, vénil’ah) makes this syntactically unlikely.
  3. 20 Heb “it [is],” referring to God’s “inheritance.”
  4. 21 Heb “it,” referring to God’s “inheritance.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;

you restored your inheritance as it languished;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You gave abundant showers, O God;

you refreshed your weary inheritance.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You, God, showered abundant rain;

you revived your inheritance when it languished.

NLTNew Living Translation

You sent abundant rain, O God,

to refresh the weary land.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You caused abundant rain to fall, O God.

When your inheritance was weary you revived it.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain,

Whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.