Psalm 104:13
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New International Version (©2011)
He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.

English Standard Version (©2001)
From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He waters the mountains from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He waters the mountains from His palace; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He waters the mountains from his heavenly rooms; the earth is satisfied from the fruit of your work.

NET Bible (©2006)
He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
He waters the mountains from his lofty dwellings; from the fruit of your works you will satisfy the Earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You water the mountains from your home above. You fill the earth with the fruits of your labors.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.

American King James Version
He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.

American Standard Version
He watereth the mountains from his chambers: The earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:

Darby Bible Translation
He watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

English Revised Version
He watereth the mountains from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

Webster's Bible Translation
He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

World English Bible
He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

Young's Literal Translation
Watering hills from His upper chambers, From the fruit of Thy works is the earth satisfied.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

104:10-18 When we reflect upon the provision made for all creatures, we should also notice the natural worship they render to God. Yet man, forgetful ungrateful man, enjoys the largest measure of his Creator's kindness. the earth, varying in different lands. Nor let us forget spiritual blessings; the fruitfulness of the church through grace, the bread of everlasting life, the cup of salvation, and the oil of gladness. Does God provide for the inferior creatures, and will he not be a refuge to his people?

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - He (i.e. God) watereth the hills from his chambers (comp. ver. 3). The mountains themselves, even their highest tops, are not left dry. Where springs cannot reach, rain falls from God's "chambers" in the sky, and spreads equal refreshment. The earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. The whole earth - mountains, hills, plains, valleys - is thus "satisfied," i.e. sufficiently supplied with water, by the means which God has elaborated.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He watereth the hills from his chambers,.... The house of his superior treasures, as the Targum. The airy regions, Psalm 104:3 with the clouds of heaven, by the rain which they drop down upon them; the usefulness of which blessings of nature is largely described in this and some following verses. "The hills", which are naturally dry and barren, and receive but little advantage from the springs, fountains, and rivers below, are supplied with water from above; and become fruitful, bear herbage, and are clothed with flocks. This seems to refer to the first rain that was upon the earth, Genesis 2:5 and which favour is continued to all lands, excepting some part of the land of Egypt, and in all ages since; see Psalm 65:9. So ministers of the word, who are set in the first place, and are eminent in the church of God, and who water others, are watered themselves with the gifts and graces of the Spirit descending from above, as the apostles were, in an extraordinary manner, at the day of Pentecost; and as others in a more ordinary manner daily are. So likewise the churches of Christ, comparable to hills and mountains for firmness and visibility, and the several members thereof, are watered with the dews of divine favour, with the rain of the divine word; which comes down from heaven as the rain does, and drops and distils like that; and with the grace of the divine Spirit, whereby their souls become as a watered garden, whose springs fail not.

The earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works; with the fruits which grow out of it by means of rain, as are after mentioned; herbs, grass, and trees, so Aben Ezra: or with the influences of the heavens, which are the work of God's hands, and by which the earth is made fruitful; or more particularly with the virtue and efficacy of the rain, so Kimchi; which is the Lord's peculiar work, Jeremiah 14:22. This the earth drinking in, is as satisfied with as a thirsty man is with drinking a draught of water; see Deuteronomy 11:11. So the people of God, comparable to the good earth that drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, are satisfied with the love of God, with the blessings of his grace, with the doctrines of his Gospel, and with the ordinances of his house.

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O Lord, My God, You are Very Great
…12By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. 13He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works. 14He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; …

Job 38:27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
Psalm 65:9 You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.
Psalm 104:11 They give water to all the beasts of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Psalm 147:8 He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills.
Isaiah 30:23 He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.
Jeremiah 10:13 When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
Amos 9:6 he builds his lofty palace in the heavens and sets its foundation on the earth; he calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land-- the LORD is his name.