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# You ... your
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The words "You" and "your" refer to Yahweh.
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# its furrows
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"the earth's furrows"
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# furrows
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A furrow is a long narrow trench made in the ground for planting seeds or for watering the field where grains have been planted.
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# ridges
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edges
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# You crown the year with your goodness
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Here the "year" is given the human quality of wearing a crown. AT: "You have honored the year with a good harvest" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# drop fatness down to the earth
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The word "fatness" suggests fertility or goodness. As used in this phrase, it points to how Yahweh makes the soil so good and fertile that it produces abundant harvest. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# The pastures ... drip with dew
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There is so much dew in the pastures that they are said to drip with it. AT: "The pastures ... are full of dew" or "Much dew drips in the pastures of the wilderness"
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# the hills are clothed with joy
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The writer speaks of the beauty of the hills as if they were joyful people, and of joy as if it were clothing. AT: "the hills are like people wearing joy" or "the hills are like joyful people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) |