Giving Water

Rivos ejus inebria, multiplica generationes ejus: in stillicidiis ejus laetabitur cum exorietur. Terra autem visitata, inebriata est: et quomodo nunc rivi ejus inebriantur? Sed meminisse debemus, quod si quis ex aqua Domini potaverit, flumina de ventre ejus effluent: ergo potatione aquae opus est, ut flumina fluant. Inebriamur autem ipsi, cum Spiritum sanctum qui fluvius est nuncupatus accipimus. Dehinc, quia ex nobis diversi gratiarum rivi emanant, orat propheta ut hos eosdem Dominus inebriet: ut his inebriatis, et dono divini muneris perfusis, generationes nostrae multiplicentur; terra scilicet bona, secundum evangelicam comparationem, verbi semen excipiens, fructu tricesimo et sexagesimo et centesimo ditescat Sanctus Hilarius Pictaviensis, Tractatus super Psalmos, Tractatus in Psalmum LXIV Source: Migne PL 9.414b-c

Give water to its streams, multiply its fruits, in its showers it shall rejoice as it rises up. 1 He has visited the earth and watered it, 2 and now how are its streams watered? We should remember that if someone drinks from the water of the Lord that rivers shall flow out of his breast, 3 therefore one must drink this water so that the rivers flow. We are watered when it is announced that we have received the Holy Spirit, He who is like a river. Hence because the diverse rivers of grace may emanate from us, the prophet prays that the Lord might water him with these, so that being watered with them, and doused in the gift of the Divine benefactions, our fruits might be multiplied, that is, in the good land according to the parable of the Gospel, where when the seed of the Word is received it yields thirty fold and sixty fold and a hundred fold. 4 Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Homilies on the Psalms, from Psalm 64 1 Ps 64.11 2 Ps 64.10 3 Jn 7.38 4 Mt 13.8