Psalms 104:13

King James Version

He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
He gives water to the mountains from His upper chambers;The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He watereth the hilles from aboue: the earth is replenished with the fruite of thy workes.

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

New King James Version
He waters the hills from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.

Literal Translation
He waters the hills from His upper rooms; the earth is satisfied from the fruit of Your works.

Easy-to-Read Version
You send rain down on the mountains. The earth gets everything it needs from what you have made.

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

King James Version (1611)
He watereth the hilles from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy workes.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou watrest the hylles from aboue, the erth is fylled with ye frutes of thy workes.

Amplified Bible
He waters the mountains from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

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

Bible in Basic English
He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

Update Bible Version
He waters the mountains from his chambers: The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

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

New English Translation
He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

Contemporary English Version
From your home above you send rain on the hills and water the earth.

Complete Jewish Bible
You water the mountains from your palace; the earth is satisfied with how you provide —

Geneva Bible (1587)
He watereth the mountaines from his chambers, and the earth is filled with the fruite of thy workes.

George Lamsa Translation
He waters the hills from his chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

Hebrew Names Version
He waters the mountains from his chambers. The eretz is filled with the fruit of your works.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who waterest the mountains from Thine upper chambers; the earth is full of the fruit of Thy works.

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

New Life Bible
He waters the mountains from His home above. The earth is filled with the fruit of His works.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He waters the mountains from his chambers: the earth shall be 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.

Berean Standard Bible
He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.

New Revised Standard
From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who watereth the mountains out of his upper chambers, Out of the fruit of thy works, thou satisfiest the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(103-13) Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:

Lexham English Bible
You are the one who waters the mountains from his upper chambers. The earth is full with the fruit of your labors:

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

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

New Century Version
You water the mountains from above. The earth is full of the things you made.

Good News Translation
From the sky you send rain on the hills, and the earth is filled with your blessings.

Christian Standard Bible®
He waters the mountains from His palace; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou moistist hillis of her hiyer thingis; the erthe schal be fillid of the fruyt of thi werkis.

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

Revised Standard Version
From thy lofty abode thou waterest the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy work.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. ¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. ¹² By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. ¹³ He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. ¹⁴ He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; ¹⁵ And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart. ¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; ¹⁷ Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. ¹⁸ The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

watereth: Psalms 147:8, Deuteronomy 11:11, Job 38:25-28, Job 38:37, Jeremiah 10:13, Jeremiah 14:22, Matthew 5:45, Acts 14:17

his chambers: Psalms 104:3, Amos 9:6

the earth: Psalms 65:9-13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:4 - Then I Job 9:9 - General Job 36:31 - he giveth Psalms 119:64 - earth Isaiah 30:23 - shall he Zechariah 10:1 - and give

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He watereth the hills from his chambers,.... The house of his superior treasures, as the Targum. The airy regions, Psalms 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 Psalms 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He watereth the hills from his chambers - The waters, as stated before, run in the valleys - in the natural channels made for them among the hills, Psalms 104:10. But still, it was a fact that the hills themselves were watered; that there were springs far up their heights; and that vegetation was sustained above the reach of the fountains and streams below; and it was a proof of the divine skill and beneficence that, in some way, water was furnished on the summits and sides of the hills themselves. This was caused, the psalmist says, by God’s pouring water on them, as it were, from his own “chambers” - his abode on high. The allusion is, doubtless, to rain, which seems to be poured down from the very abode of God. The word rendered “chambers” means “upper rooms,” (see the notes at Psalms 104:3); and the reference is to the dwelling-place of God, as far above the earth.

The earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works - Thy doings; with what thou hast done. All the needs of the earth seem to be met and “satisfied;” all that it could desire to make it fertile and beautiful; and the proper abode of man, of beast, and of fowl, has been granted. It has no cause of complaint; nothing has been left undone, in the valleys or on the hills, on the dry land or in the waters, that was needful to be done to carry out the purpose for which it has been called into being.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 104:13. From his chambers — The clouds, as in Psalms 104:3.

The earth is satisfied — The inhabitants of it.