You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance. The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed […]
⛓ Read Psalm 65 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The psalm of God visiting the earth with rain, enriching it, crowning the year with bounty so the valleys 'shout for joy,' matches v17's rains, fruitful seasons, and resulting 'food and gladness.' Volume moderate (rain → fertility → joy sequence); Thematic Coherence high (providence evoking gladness).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God waters the earth and provides rain abundantly; background to 'sends rain on the just and the unjust.'
Low confidence