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Psalm 65:9

You 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.

7You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
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.
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Notice

Grain grows from earth that God visits and waters, drawing attention to the dependence on his care within something as ordinary as a meal.

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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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Psalm 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.Both passages describe a river associated with God, with abundance for the earth in one and gladness for his city in the other.
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 texts name God as the giver of water that sustains what grows in the earth.
Revelation 22:1He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,Both passages speak of a river belonging to God; Revelation describes its water as life and its source as God’s throne.
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 connect God’s gift of water with food production, naming his ordering of provision and the harvest.
Psalm 104:13–15He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.Both psalms praise God for watering the earth and filling it with the fruit of his work.
Psalm 68:9–10You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.Both passages describe abundant water from God as an expression of his care.
Joel 2:23–26“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down …Both passages praise God as the giver of water, with Joel naming the early and latter rains.
Hosea 6:3Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, the LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the …Psalm 65 describes God visiting and watering the earth; Hosea compares his coming to rain that waters the earth.
Psalm 147:8–9who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.Both psalms connect water supplied by God with growth from the earth, whether grain or grass.
Ruth 1:6Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how the LORD had visited his …Both passages describe God visiting with provision of food, grain in the psalm and bread in Ruth.
Deuteronomy 11:11–12but 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 texts describe land receiving water; Deuteronomy names rain from the sky, while the psalm names God as the provider.
Job 5:10–11who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;Both passages credit God with supplying water to the earth, including the ground where food grows.
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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Write the link between rain and your next meal

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Encouragement

Your need for food belongs within the scope of God’s care described here. The psalm praises him for watering real soil and providing grain for people to eat.

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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).