Psalms 65:13

13 The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

Psalms 65:13 in Other Translations

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

13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.

13 The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are carpeted with grain. They all shout and sing for joy!

13 Dress the canyon walls with live sheep, a drape of flax across the valleys. Let them shout, and shout, and shout! Oh, oh, let them sing!

13 The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys covered with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.

Psalms 65:13 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 65:13

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 Isaiah 60:8 ) ( 49:18 ) it may be rendered the "rams clothe", or "cover, the flocks" ^F19; 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 ) ( 55:9-13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (Myrk) (krioi) , Sept. "arietes", V. L.

Psalms 65:13 In-Context

11 You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.

12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness.

13 The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 144:13; Isaiah 30:23; Zechariah 8:12
• 2. Psalms 72:16
• 3. Psalms 98:8; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 55:12