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Psalm 147:8

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

6The LORD upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.
7Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,
8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
10He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
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Grass growing on the mountains draws attention to God's care for ground beyond human tending, making familiar weather a reason for praise.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 1:11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was …Both passages credit God with the earth's growing grass, Genesis through his spoken command and the psalm through his provision of rain.
Psalm 104:13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.Both passages describe God watering the mountains and making the earth fruitful.
Jeremiah 5:24They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the …Both passages name God as the giver of rain that sustains growth on the earth.
Job 5:10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;Both passages attribute rain on the earth to God's action.
Job 38:28Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?Job's question concerns the source of rain, while the psalm names God as the one who prepares it.
Psalm 65:10You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.Both passages describe God's provision of water for growing things, whether mountain grass or a cultivated crop.
Job 36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,Both passages describe God at work in the provision of rain.
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 passages connect God's watering of the earth with the growth he provides.
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 passages name God as the giver of rain, with Matthew specifying that it falls on the just and unjust.
Genesis 9:14Both passages describe God bringing clouds over the earth, though Genesis also speaks of the rainbow.
Job 26:8–9He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.Both passages speak of clouds as subject to God's power, with water under his command.
Acts 14:17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and …Both passages connect rain from God with the growth that his provision sustains.
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Something small to carry out of this verse

Thank God for one patch of growing grass

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Encouragement

The grass on a mountainside grows under God's care, beyond the reach of your work. His provision reaches places you have never seen or tended.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).