Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionThey drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GThe pastures of the wilderness drip with richness, the hills gird themselves with gladness;
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageThe wilderness pastures overflow with richness, the hills wrap themselves with joy;
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThe pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
Footnotes
Ne'ot midbar — the pastures of the wilderness or steppe — the very terrain of dryness, testing, and death (Israel's wilderness wandering) now drips with dashen (fatness/richness, same word as v.11). The redemptive geography is total: nowhere is excluded from YHWH's bounty. The personification deepens: the hills tachgornah — they 'gird themselves' — putting on gladness as a warrior girds on battle-armour, deliberately echoing YHWH's own girding with might in v.6. Creation mirrors its Creator's posture. F.O.G. uses 'gird' to maintain this verbal thread; F.O.G.M. uses 'wrap' for lyrical smoothness while retaining the clothing image.
