9-13 Oh, visit the earth,
    ask her to join the dance!
Deck her out in spring showers,
    fill the God-River with living water.
Paint the wheat fields golden.
    Creation was made for this!
Drench the plowed fields,
    soak the dirt clods
With rainfall as harrow and rake
    bring her to blossom and fruit.
Snow-crown the peaks with splendor,
    scatter rose petals down your paths,
All through the wild meadows, rose petals.
    Set the hills to dancing,
Dress the canyon walls with live sheep,
    a drape of flax across the valleys.
Let them shout, and shout, and shout!
    Oh, oh, let them sing!

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10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
    you soften it with showers(A) and bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your bounty,(B)
    and your carts overflow with abundance.(C)
12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;(D)
    the hills are clothed with gladness.(E)

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