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Psalm 65:12

The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

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.
13The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.
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Notice

Overflowing grasslands and hills dressed in gladness portray God's bounty as something visible across a whole landscape, reaching beyond the furrows of a planted field.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Job 38:26–27to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man,Both passages attend to the wilderness: Job names rain on uninhabited land, while the psalm describes overflowing grasslands.
Joel 2:22Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their …Wilderness pastures flourish in both passages, with overflowing grasslands in the psalm and new growth in Joel.
Psalm 104:10–13He sends springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.Both describe a landscape sustained by God's provision, with grasslands and hills here, springs and mountain valleys there.
Isaiah 61:10–11I will greatly rejoice in the LORD! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of …Both use clothing to express joy: hills wear gladness in the psalm, while Isaiah rejoices in God's garments of salvation.
Psalm 65:6By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.Within the same psalm, mountains formed by God's power stand alongside hills clothed with gladness.
Isaiah 55:9–13“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.The shared thread is creation imagery: hills and grasslands here, heaven and earth in Isaiah's description of God's higher ways.
Psalm 72:3The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.Both portray hills as bearing goodness: gladness in Psalm 65, and the fruit of righteousness in Psalm 72.
Where this verse fits

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Something small to carry out of this verse

Pause beside a patch of grass for five minutes

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Encouragement

The hills' gladness belongs to a song about God's care for the land. Growth across the grasslands bears witness to his generous provision.

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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).