What Does Psalm 65:13 Mean?
The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys cover themselves with grain. They shout, they also sing.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.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.
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.
Shout to the LORD, all the earth. Burst open, ring out, and make music.For you shall go out in joy, and be carried forth in wholeness. The mountains and the hills shall burst into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their palms.And he answered and said, "I tell you, if these should hold their tongues, the stones will cry out."THE THREAD
Shout to the LORD, all the earth. Burst open, ring out, and make music.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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