Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.
New American Standard Bible
And the
King James Version
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
Holman Bible
and the hills are robed with joy.
International Standard Version
The wilderness pastures drip with dew, and the hills wrap themselves with joy.
A Conservative Version
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills are girded with joy.
American Standard Version
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; And the hills are girded with joy.
Amplified
The pastures of the wilderness drip [with dew],
And the hills are encircled with joy.
Darby Translation
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills are girded with gladness.
Julia Smith Translation
The pastures of the desert shall drop, and the hills shall be girded with joy.
King James 2000
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They drop [on the] pastures of [the] wilderness, and the hills gird themselves with joy.
Modern King James verseion
They drop on the pastures of the wilderness; and the little hills gird themselves with joy.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness; and the little hills shall rejoice on every side.
NET Bible
The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.
New Heart English Bible
The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
The Emphasized Bible
Fruitful are the pastures of the wilderness, And, with exultation, the hills do gird themselves.
Webster
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
World English Bible
The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
Youngs Literal Translation
Drop do the pastures of a wilderness, And joy of the heights Thou girdest on.
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 65:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Care For The Earth
11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. 13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 38:26-27
Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
Psalm 65:6
The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:
Psalm 104:10-13
You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.
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.
Isaiah 61:10-11
I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.
Joel 2:22
Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.