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Psalms 64:13

The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the hills shall be girded about with joy,

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Pinguescent speciosa deserti, et exsultatione colles accingentur.
Septuagint (Swete): πιανθήσεται τὰ ὄρη τῆς ἐρήμου, καὶ ἀγαλλίασιν οἱ βουνοὶ περιζώσονται.
Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 65:13: יִ֭רְעֲפוּ נְא֣וֹת מִדְבָּ֑ר וְ֝גִ֗יל גְּבָע֥וֹת תַּחְגֹּֽרְנָה

Haydock's commentary

Wilderness. Or, of such places as were not ploughed. Little hay was collected, as cattle might almost always pasture.

Hills, covered with vine-trees, &c., Joel iii. 18., and Job xx. 17. (Calmet)

The most barren will bring forth fruit, and the perfect shall advance in merit. (Worthington)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.

The Fathers on this verse

St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXV

16. “The ends of the desert shall grow fat, and the hills shall be encircled with exultation” ( ver. 12 ). Plains, hills, ends of the desert, the same are also men. Plains, because of the equality: because of equality, I say, from thence just peoples have been called plains. Hills, because of lifting up: because God doth lift up in Himself those that humble themselves. Ends of the desert are all nations. Wherefore ends of the desert? Deserted they were, to them no Prophet had been sent: they were in like case as is a desert where no man passeth by. No word of God was sent to the nations: to the people Israel alone the Prophets preached. We came to the Lord; the wheat believed among that same people of the Jews. …

The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).