1 To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. A Song. It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made. 2 To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come. 3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away. 4 Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place. 5 You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea; 6 The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power: 7 Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves. 8 Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you. 9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. 11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. 13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
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Psalm 65 Bible in Basic English
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 62:1; Psalm 76:11; Psalm 116:17–18; Psalm 21:13; 1 Chronicles 25:1–31
- 2 Jeremiah 29:12–13; Isaiah 65:24; Isaiah 66:23; 1 John 5:14–15; Psalm 86:9
- 3 Psalm 38:4; Isaiah 6:7; Psalm 79:9; 1 John 1:7–9; Hebrews 9:14
- 4 Ephesians 1:4; Psalm 23:6; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 106:4–5; Psalm 33:12
- 5 Deuteronomy 10:21; Isaiah 45:22; Revelation 15:3–4; Psalm 66:3; Psalm 45:4
- 6 Psalm 93:1; Habakkuk 3:6; Psalm 119:90; Micah 6:2; Isaiah 51:9
- 7 Psalm 89:9; Psalm 93:3–4; Isaiah 17:12–13; Psalm 107:29; John 18:6
- 8 Psalm 148:3; Psalm 136:8; Psalm 104:20–23; Psalm 74:16; Psalm 48:5–6
- 9 Psalm 46:4; Revelation 22:1; Psalm 104:13–15; Jeremiah 5:24; Psalm 68:9–10
- 10 1 Corinthians 3:6–7; Psalm 147:8; Deuteronomy 32:2
- 11 Joel 2:21–26; Psalm 103:4; Psalm 5:12; Psalm 36:8; Haggai 2:19
- 12 Job 38:26–27; Psalm 104:10–13; Joel 2:22; Isaiah 61:10–11; Psalm 65:6
- 13 Isaiah 55:12; Isaiah 35:1–2; Isaiah 30:23; Acts 14:17; Psalm 96:11–13
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Though chiefly the Lord's Passion is noticed in this Psalm, neither could the Martyrs have been strong, unless they had beheld Him, that first suffered; nor such things would they have endured in suffering, as He did, unless they had hoped for such things in the Resurrection as He had showed of Himself: but your Holiness knoweth that our Head …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… times; because "old things have passed away," and "behold all things are become new;" and "because our salvation is nearer than when we believed;" and because "the night is far spent, the day is at hand;" and because Thou wilt crown Thy year with blessing, sending the labourers of Thy goodness into Thy harvest, in the sowing of which others …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)