38:28 Does the rain have a father,
or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
65:10 You saturate 1 its furrows,
and soak 2 its plowed ground. 3
With rain showers you soften its soil, 4
and make its crops grow. 5
65:11 You crown the year with your good blessings, 6
and you leave abundance in your wake. 7
10:13 When his voice thunders, 8 the heavenly ocean roars.
He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. 9
He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain.
He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it. 10
1 tn Heb “saturating” [the form is an infinitive absolute].
2 tn Heb “flatten, cause to sink.”
3 tn Heb “trenches,” or “furrows.”
4 tn Heb “soften it,” that is, the earth.
5 tn Heb “its vegetation you bless.” Divine “blessing” often involves endowing an object with special power or capacity.
6 tn Heb “your good,” which refers here to agricultural blessings.
7 tn Heb “and your paths drip with abundance.”
8 tn Heb “At the voice of his giving.” The idiom “to give the voice” is often used for thunder (cf. BDB 679 s.v. נָתַן Qal.1.x).
9 tn Heb “from the ends of the earth.”
10 tn Heb “he brings out the winds from his storehouses.”