Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.

New American Standard Bible

You water its furrows abundantly,
You settle its ridges,
You soften it with showers,
You bless its growth.

King James Version

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

Holman Bible

You soften it with showers and bless its growth,
soaking its furrows and leveling its ridges.

A Conservative Version

Thou water its furrows abundantly. Thou settle the ridges of it. Thou make it soft with showers. Thou bless the springing of it.

American Standard Version

Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof.

Amplified


You water its furrows abundantly,
You smooth its ridges;
You soften it with showers,
You bless its growth.

Bible in Basic English

You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

Darby Translation

Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou givest its furrows to drink to the full: thou wilt cause its incisions to flow down in showers: thou wilt bless its springing up.

King James 2000

You water its ridges abundantly: you settle its furrows: you make it soft with showers: you bless its growth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You drench its furrows, penetrating its ridges. With rains you soften it; its growth you bless.

Modern King James verseion

You fill its terraces with water; You deepen its furrows; You make it soft with showers; You bless the sprouting of it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou waterest her furrows, thou breakest the hard clots thereof, thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.

NET Bible

You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

The ridges thereof, drenching, Settling the furrows thereof, With myriad drops, dost thou soften it, The sprouting thereof, doth thou bless.

Webster

Thou waterest the ridges of it abundantly: thou settlest the furrows of it: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing of it.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

References

Easton

Hastings

Watsons

Verse Info

Context Readings

God's Care For The Earth

9 You take care of the earth, you water it, and you enrich it greatly with the river of God that overflows with water. You provide grain for them, for you have ordained it this way. 10 You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed. 11 You crown the year with your goodness; your footsteps drop prosperity behind them.


Cross References

Psalm 147:8

He shields the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth and making grass grow on the hills.

Deuteronomy 32:2

May my instructions descend like rain and may my words flow like dew, as light rain upon the grass, and as showers upon new plants.

1 Corinthians 3:6-7

I planted, Apollos watered, but God kept everything growing.

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