⁹ You care for the land and water it;^(A)
    you enrich it abundantly.^(B)
The streams of God are filled with water
    to provide the people with grain,^(C)
    for so you have ordained it.^[a]
10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
    you soften it with showers^(D) and bless its crops.

¹² But God made^(A) the earth^(B) by his power;
    he founded the world by his wisdom^(C)
    and stretched out the heavens^(D) by his understanding.
¹³ When he thunders,^(E) the waters in the heavens roar;
    he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.
He sends lightning^(F) with the rain^(G)
    and brings out the wind from his storehouses.^(H)