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Psalm 104:13
He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
11They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:
15wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
Notice
Water reaches even the mountains, and the turn from “his rooms” to “your works” turns an account of God’s provision into words addressed to him.
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Jeremiah 10:13When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and …Both passages describe water coming from above under God’s command, with rain belonging to his work.
Psalm 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.Both passages name mountains as places God waters, linking his provision of water with the earth’s growth.
Jeremiah 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, the LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for …Both texts identify God as the source of the water that reaches the earth.
Amos 9:6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface …Both passages speak of God’s rooms and describe him sending water onto the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:11but the land that you go over to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,Both passages describe elevated land receiving water from above, though Deuteronomy speaks of the land Israel will possess.
Zechariah 10:1Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time, the LORD who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.Both passages connect water supplied by God with the growth that comes from the earth.
Job 38:37Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,Both use the picture of water poured from above, with rooms in the psalm and sky containers in Job.
Job 38:25–28Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,Both concern water and the power directing it, though Job’s question names flood water and thunderstorms rather than fruitfulness.
Psalm 65:9–13You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.Both psalms praise God for watering the earth and making it fruitful.
Job 9:9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.Both passages use the word “rooms” in descriptions of God’s works, though Job names stars rather than watering the earth.
Psalm 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.Both verses describe God’s rooms in connection with water, giving the mountain-watering image its setting within the psalm.
Matthew 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.Both texts attribute rain to God; Matthew adds that he sends it on the just and the unjust.
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The mountains receive water from God, and the earth bears the fruit of his work. The life around you depends on the God who sustains it.
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