Psalms 65:10 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 65:10

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 3 (1872)

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof. Ridge and furrow are drenched. The ridges beaten down and settled, and the furrows made to stand like gutters flooded to the full. Thou makest it soft with showers. The drought turned the clods into iron, but the plenteous showers dissolve and loosen the soil. Thou blessest the springing thereof. Vegetation enlivened by the moisture leaps into vigour, the seed germinates and sends forth its green shoot, and the smell is that as of a field which the Lord has blessed.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תְּלָמֶ֣יהָ	te.la.Mei.ha	furrows its	H8525 →
רַ֭וֵּה	Ra.veh	[surely] watering	H7301 →
נַחֵ֣ת	na.Chet	you press down	H5181 →
גְּדוּדֶ֑יהָ	ge.du.Dei.ha	ridges its	H1417 →
בִּרְבִיבִ֥ים	bir.vi.Vim	with copious showers	H7241 →
תְּ֝מֹגְגֶ֗נָּה	te.mo.ge.Ge.nah	you soften it	H4127 →
צִמְחָ֥הּ	tzim.Chah	growth its	H6780 →
תְּבָרֵֽךְ׃	te.va.Rekh	you bless	H1288 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 32:2
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
leads to
- Isaiah 55:10–11
  For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
- Psalms 72:6
  May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
- Micah 5:7
  Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
- Job 29:22–23
  After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
- Hosea 14:5
  I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
Through
Psalms 147:8
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
leads to
- Job 5:10
  He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
- Psalms 65:9–13
  You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Matthew 5:45
  that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

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Where the connections lead

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