Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 65:10

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Psalms 65:10 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Psalms 65:10. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to David, God makes the ground nice and soft with lots of rain to help plants grow. He makes sure everything gets the water it needs to spring up and be healthy.

Psalms 65:10: Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. [settlest: or, causest rain to descend into] [makest...: Heb. dissolvest it]

Contradiction with Genesis 3:17-19

These verses describe the curse of the ground and the toil required to produce food, contradicting Psalm 65:10, which depicts a bountiful and blessed earth.

Genesis 3:17-19: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

Contradiction with Haggai 1:10-11

These verses talk about a drought and the withholding of produce, contrasting with the abundance and fertility in Psalm 65:10.

Haggai 1:10-11: Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit.

Contradiction with Amos 4:7

This verse describes a lack of rain, leading to scarcity, which opposes the imagery in Psalm 65:10 of watering the land abundantly.

Amos 4:7: And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 12:4

This verse speaks of the land mourning and the herbs wilting due to wickedness, contradicting the flourishing depicted in Psalm 65:10.

Jeremiah 12:4: How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

Contradiction with Joel 1:10

Here, the fields are described as wasted, and the land mourns, which is the opposite of the prosperous and well-watered landscapes in Psalm 65:10.

Joel 1:10: The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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