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Psalm 65

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For the choirmaster. A psalm of David. A song.

1 Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion,
and to you shall vows be performed.

2 O you who hear prayer,
to you shall all flesh come.

3 When iniquities prevail against me,
you atone for our transgressions.

4 Blessed is the one you choose and bring near,
to dwell in your courts!
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
the holiness of your temple!

5 By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,
O God of our salvation,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas;

6 the one who by his strength established the mountains,
being girded with might;

7 who stills the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
the tumult of the peoples;

8 so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.
You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

9 You visit the earth and water it;
you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
you provide their grain,
for so you have prepared it.

10 You water its furrows abundantly,
settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
and blessing its growth.

11 You crown the year with your bounty;
your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.

12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
the hills gird themselves with joy,

13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
the valleys deck themselves with grain,
they shout and sing together for joy.

Translation notes (3)
  1. Psalm 65:3a The Hebrew moves abruptly from singular to plural: iniquities prevail 'against me' (menni), yet God atones for 'our transgressions' (pesha'einu), joining the psalmist's confession to the whole congregation. The verb kipper, 'to atone' or 'to cover over', is the language of the sanctuary, here applied directly to God as the one who removes guilt.
  2. Psalm 65:9a The phrase peleg elohim (פֶּלֶג אֱלֹהִים), 'channel of God', pictures a heavenly watercourse from which God irrigates the earth, an image of the divine storehouse of rain found elsewhere in ancient Near Eastern poetry. The singular peleg, 'channel' or 'stream', ordinarily denotes an irrigation ditch, here transposed to the skies as the source of the year's abundance.
  3. Psalm 65:11a Hebrew maʿgal (מַעְגָּל), 'track' or 'rut', is related to ʿagalah, 'cart', suggesting the ruts left by a laden harvest wagon. The image pictures God passing over the land like a farmer whose overfull cart drips fatness along its path; the King James tradition rendered the phrase 'thy paths drop fatness'.

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