What Does Psalm 65:13 Mean in the King James?
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew shout can also be a public blast of announcement, so the harvest is not silent scenery: the land announces its fullness.
THE MEANING
You stand inside a world where fullness has a voice. The pastures wear their flocks, the valleys are covered with grain, and this abundance rises into a shout and song. The land around you appears as a participant, not merely as scenery.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The fields and valleys are not mute scenery while only people praise; this verse gives the land a voice of its own.
THE ROOT
יִתְרוֹעֲעוּ
yitroa'u
GROWS FROM
רוע
ruaʿ
To raise a shout or cry aloud; related forms can describe an acclamation or a blast of alarm.
“shout for joy” in this verse is yitroa'u. This root carries both jubilant acclamation and alarm, so the shout is more than an expression of mood: it announces what has become full. Here, the fields and valleys give that announcement a voice.
ALSO GROWS
teru'ah: A shout or blast, used for an acclamation or alarm.
תְּרוּעָה
This related noun makes the landscape’s joy sound like a public signal announcing abundance.
hari'u: Raise a shout; make a joyful noise.
הָרִיעוּ
Psalm 98:4 uses this related form to call the whole earth to shout, widening the harvest scene into a voice shared by creation.
לָבְשׁוּ
lavshu
GROWS FROM
לבש
labash
To put on or wear.
“clothed” in this verse is lavshu. The Hebrew pictures the pastures wearing their flocks, making abundance the visible form the land takes on. It is not just a count beside the pasture; it is what the pasture wears.
ALSO GROWS
levush: A garment or attire.
לְבוּשׁ
The noun for a garment makes the verse’s image concrete: the flock becomes the pasture’s visible covering.
malbush: Clothing or apparel.
מַלְבּוּשׁ
This related word keeps the focus on abundance as something worn by the landscape.
THE PATTERN
When the earth overflows with life, creation itself becomes a voice of joy.
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.THE THREAD
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.The Hebrew root behind “shout for joy” here also appears in Psalm 98:4’s call for the whole earth to make a joyful noise. The shared verb opens the harvest scene into a larger picture: the earth’s fullness finds sound.
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