Psalm 65:9 {64:10}
Good News Translation
You show your care for the land by sending rain; you make it rich and fertile. You fill the streams with water; you provide the earth with crops. This is how you do it:

New Revised Standard Version
You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it.

Contemporary English Version
You take care of the earth and send rain to help the soil grow all kinds of crops. Your rivers never run dry, and you prepare the earth to produce abundant grain.

New American Bible
You visit the earth and water it, make it abundantly fertile. God’s stream is filled with water; you supply their grain. Thus do you prepare it:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.

visitest

Psalm 104:13,14 Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works: . . .

Deuteronomy 11:11,12 But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven. . . .

Ruth 1:6 And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country, with both her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked upon his people, and had given them food.

Job 37:6-13 He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength. . . .

Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

and waterest it.

Psalm 63:1 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

greatly

Psalm 65:11 Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy fields shall be filled with plenty.

Psalm 68:9,10 Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect. . . .

Psalm 104:13-15 Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works: . . .

Psalm 147:8,9 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men. . . .

Job 5:10,11 Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters: . . .

Jeremiah 5:24 And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.

Joel 2:23-26 And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning. . . .

the river

Psalm 46:4 The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.

Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

thou preparest

Psalm 104:15 And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart.

Psalm 107:37 And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth.

Genesis 26:12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

1 Timothy 6:17,18 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy) . . .

Context
Praise Awaits You, O God, in Zion
8And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful. 9Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation.10Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; it shall spring up and rejoice in its showers.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:11
And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.

Genesis 2:5
And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.

Leviticus 26:4
And the ground shall bring forth its increase: and the trees shall be filled with fruit.

Job 5:10
Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:

Psalm 46:4
The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most High hath sanctified his own tabernacle.

Psalm 68:9
Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect.

Psalm 68:10
In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.

Psalm 104:13
Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:

Psalm 104:14
Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth:

Psalm 104:24
How great are thy works, O Lord ? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.

Psalm 147:8
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.

Psalm 147:14
Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

Isaiah 30:23
And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow in the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy possession:

Jeremiah 5:24
And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.

Psalm 65:8
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