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Psalm 65:13

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

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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Pastures covered with flocks and valleys clothed with grain become a singing landscape, turning the sight of enough to eat into a scene of joy.

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Isaiah 55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields …Both passages picture the landscape singing, with pastures and valleys rejoicing here and mountains and hills singing in Isaiah.
Psalm 5:11But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.Shouting for joy links the flourishing land here with people who take refuge in God.
Isaiah 35:1–2The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.Both portray the land rejoicing as it flourishes, through grain-covered valleys here and a blossoming desert in Isaiah.
Isaiah 30:23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your …Both describe agricultural abundance through crops growing from the ground and livestock feeding in pastures.
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 connect God's provision of food with gladness, expressed through a singing landscape here and glad hearts in Acts.
Psalm 98:7–9Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.Both give the natural world a voice, from grain-covered valleys to the sea and its fullness.
Psalm 96:11–13Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!Both portray the earth rejoicing, with the valleys singing here and the earth urged to rejoice in Psalm 96.
Isaiah 44:23Sing, you heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for the …Both depict parts of the earth shouting and singing in response to God's work.
Psalm 65:8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.Songs of joy connect the dawn and evening earlier in the psalm with the flourishing pastures and valleys here.
Zechariah 9:17For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.Both celebrate grain as part of abundance, covering the valleys here and nourishing young men in Zechariah.
Jeremiah 48:33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with …Both link fruitful land with joy and shouting, though Jeremiah describes that joy being taken away.
Job 31:38If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;Both portray land as having a voice, singing with joy here and crying out in Job's conditional statement.
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Encouragement

Grain growing and flocks feeding belong in a song of praise. The psalm celebrates God's bounty through the plain, material gifts that sustain life.

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