1 For the chief musician. A psalm. A song of David. For you, God in Zion, our praise waits; our vows will be carried out to you. 2 You who hear prayer, to you all flesh will come. 3 Iniquities prevail against us; as for our transgressions, you will forgive them. 4 Blessed is the man whom you choose to bring near to you so that he may live in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple. 5 In righteousness you will answer us by doing amazing things, God of our salvation; you who are hope of all the ends of the earth and of those who are far across the sea. 6 For it is you who made the mountains firm, you who are belted with strength. 7 It is you who quiet the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the commotion of the peoples. 8 Those who live in the uttermost parts of the earth are afraid of the evidence of your deeds; you make the east and the west rejoice. 9 You come to help the earth; you water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide mankind grain when you have prepared the earth. 10 You water its furrows abundantly; you settle down the furrows' ridges; you make them soft with rain showers; you bless the sprouts between them. 11 You crown the year with your goodness, and your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. 12 The pastures in the wilderness drip with dew, and the hills are clothed with joy. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with grain; they shout for joy, and they sing.
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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)