You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
- BSB You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
- NKJV You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, Whereby You confirmed Your inheritance, When it was weary.
- NASB You made plentiful rain fall, God; You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched.
- NLT You sent abundant rain, O God, to refresh the weary land.
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Quick answer
God sent abundant rain to restore His weary inheritance. It celebrates God's renewing provision for His people.
Overview
David recalls how God refreshed His people and land with plentiful rain when they were exhausted. God restores and sustains His weary inheritance by His generous care. Such refreshment points to the spiritual renewal Christ gives to all who come to Him weary and burdened.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Deut 11:14that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
- Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
- 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.
- Ps 78:24–27He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
- Deut 11:10–12For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t as the land of Egypt, that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- Ps 77:16–17The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.
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