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Psalm 65:10–11

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65:10You saturate23 its furrows,

and soak24 its plowed ground.25

With rain showers you soften its soil,26

and make its crops grow.27

65:11You crown the year with your good blessings,28

and you leave abundance in your wake.29

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Psalm 65:11: You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.

Footnotes

  1. 23 Heb “saturating” [the form is an infinitive absolute].
  2. 24 Heb “flatten, cause to sink.”
  3. 25 Heb “trenches,” or “furrows.”
  4. 26 Heb “soften it,” that is, the earth.
  5. 27 Heb “its vegetation you bless.” Divine “blessing” often involves endowing an object with special power or capacity.
  6. 28 Heb “your good,” which refers here to agricultural blessings.
  7. 29 Heb “and your paths drip with abundance.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You water its furrows abundantly,

settling its ridges,

softening it with showers,

and blessing its growth.

You crown the year with your bounty;

your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You drench its furrows and level its ridges;

you soften it with showers and bless its crops.

You crown the year with your bounty,

and your carts overflow with abundance.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You soften it with showers and bless its growth,

soaking its furrows and leveling its ridges.

You crown the year with your goodness;

your carts overflow with plenty.

NLTNew Living Translation

You drench the plowed ground with rain,

melting the clods and leveling the ridges.

You soften the earth with showers

and bless its abundant crops.

You crown the year with a bountiful harvest;

even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You drench its furrows,

penetrating its ridges.

With rains you soften it;

its growth you bless.

You crown the year with your bounty,

and your wagon paths drip with richness.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof:

Thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;

And thy paths drop fatness.