He waters the hills from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.
Parallel translations
- WEB He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
- KJV He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
- BSB He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
- NASB He waters the mountains from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.
- NLT You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.
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God waters the mountains from His heavenly chambers, and the earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works. He richly supplies the whole land.
Overview
From His upper rooms God sends rain to water even the high places, and the earth responds with abundance. The fruitfulness of the land is the direct result of His labor. This bounty displays the goodness of the God who, in Christ, daily provides for all His creatures.
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
- Jer 10:13when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
- Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
- Deut 11:11but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water from the rain of the sky,
- Job 38:37Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
- Ps 65:9–13You 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.
- Job 38:25–28Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;
- Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
- 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 gladness.”
- Amos 9:6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
- Ps 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
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