Psalm 65:13
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New International Version (©2011)
The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are carpeted with grain. They all shout and sing for joy!

English Standard Version (©2001)
the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The meadows are clothed with flocks And the valleys are covered with grain; They shout for joy, yes, they sing.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The pastures are clothed with flocks and the valleys covered with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout for joy; yes, they burst out in song!

NET Bible (©2006)
The meadows are clothed with sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout joyfully, yes, they sing.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And they will wear the fat of sheep, and the vales will be filled with grain and they will rejoice and sing praise.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys are carpeted with grain. All of them shout triumphantly. Indeed, they sing.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with grain; they shout for joy, they also sing.

American King James Version
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

American Standard Version
The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound with corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn.

Darby Bible Translation
The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.

English Revised Version
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Webster's Bible Translation
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

World English Bible
The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing. For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.

Young's Literal Translation
Clothed have lambs the flock, And valleys are covered with corn, They shout -- yea, they sing!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

65:6-13 That Almighty strength which sets fast the mountains, upholds the believer. That word which stills the stormy ocean, and speaks it into a calm, can silence our enemies. How contrary soever light and darkness are to each other, it is hard to say which is most welcome. Does the watchman wait for the morning? so does the labourer earnestly desire the shades of evening. Some understand it of the morning and evening sacrifices. We are to look upon daily worship, both alone and with our families, to be the most needful of our daily occupations, the most delightful of our daily comforts. How much the fruitfulness of this lower part of the creation depends upon the influence of the upper, is easy to observe; every good and perfect gift is from above. He who enriches the earth, which is filled with man's sins, by his abundant and varied bounty, can neither want power nor will to feed the souls of his people. Temporal mercies to us unworthy creatures, shadow forth more important blessings. The rising of the Sun of righteousness, and the pouring forth of the influences of the Holy Spirit, that river of God, full of the waters of life and salvation, render the hard, barren, worthless hearts of sinners fruitful in every good work, and change the face of nations more than the sun and rain change the face of nature. Wherever the Lord passes, by his preached gospel, attended by his Holy Spirit, his paths drop fatness, and numbers are taught to rejoice in and praise him. They will descend upon the pastures of the wilderness, all the earth shall hear and embrace the gospel, and bring forth abundantly the fruits of righteousness which are, through Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father. Manifold and marvellous, O Lord, are thy works, whether of nature or of grace; surely in loving-kindness hast thou made them all.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - The pastures are clothed with flocks; or, with their flocks; i.e. the flocks befitting them. The valleys also are covered over with corn. The great open sweeps between the ranges of hills are completely covered over with grain crops, wheat, barley, millet; and the result is that they seem to shout for joy, they also sing. This is better than the rendering of Ewald and Delitzsch, "Man shouts for joy; he sings." All the poets personify Nature, and make her sympathize with human kind (comp. Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 55:12; Virg., ' Eclog.,' 5:62; ' Georg.,' 4:461).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The pastures are clothed with flocks,.... Of sheep, which are so thick, that there is scarce anything to be seen upon the pastures but them; which look as if they were clothed with them: these may intend the multitude of converts, signified by the flocks of Kedar, and rams of Nebaioth; which gathering about the church, and joining to her, she clothes herself with them as with an ornament, Isaiah 60:7 it may be rendered the "rams clothe", or "cover, the flocks" (s); or the flocks are clothed, or covered, with the rams, as expressive of their copulation with them; and so the Targum,

"the rams ascend upon the flocks;''

which sense is favoured by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions;

the valleys also are covered over with corn; being made very fruitful with the rain, and bringing forth in great abundance; so humble souls are the most fruitful ones;

they shout for joy, they also sing; that is, the pastures, hills, and valleys, being laden with all kind of fruit for the use of man and beast, for necessity and pleasure, which occasion joy to the inhabitants of the earth: this may be expressive of the joy that will be among men, when the interest of Christ will be in a more flourishing condition in the latter day; see Isaiah 49:13.

(s) Sept. "arietes", V. L.

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Praise Waits for You, God, in Zion
…11You crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness. 12They drop on the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Psalm 72:16 May grain abound throughout the land; on the tops of the hills may it sway. May the crops flourish like Lebanon and thrive like the grass of the field.
Psalm 96:12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
Psalm 98:8 Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy;
Psalm 144:13 Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;
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.
Isaiah 44:23 Sing for joy, you heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, you earth beneath. Burst into song, you mountains, you forests and all your trees, for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, he displays his glory in Israel.
Isaiah 55:12 You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Joel 2:22 Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.