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Psalm 65:10

You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
9You 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.
10You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.
11You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
12The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
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Notice

The drenched furrows and softened soil draw attention to God's care for the ground long before a crop reaches the table.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Genesis 27:27He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which …Both passages describe a field under God's blessing, with Psalm 65 naming the showers and crop that blessing brings.
Psalm 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.Both psalms praise God for supplying rain to the earth and causing plants to grow.
1 Corinthians 3:6–7I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.Watering and growth connect these passages, and both give God credit for what grows.
Deuteronomy 32:2My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.Both describe rain nourishing the ground or plants; Deuteronomy compares teaching to rain, while the psalm praises God's watering.
Psalm 72:6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.Both describe showers watering the earth; Psalm 72 uses a comparison, while Psalm 65 addresses God as the giver.
Where this verse fits

Gratitude. an ordinary day. praise and worship.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Trace one food on your plate back to the soil

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Encouragement

The food on your table has roots in watered ground. The psalm names God as the giver of both the showers and the crop.

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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).