Psalm 65
Thanksgiving for God’s Blessings
1 For the leader. A psalm of David. A song.
I
2 To you we owe our hymn of praise,
O God on Zion;
To you our vows must be fulfilled,
3 you who hear our prayers.
To you all flesh must come(A)
4 with its burden of wicked deeds.
We are overcome by our sins;
only you can pardon them.(B)
5 Blessed the one whom you will choose and bring
to dwell in your courts.
May we be filled with the good things of your house,
your holy temple!
II
6 You answer us with awesome deeds of justice,
O God our savior,
The hope of all the ends of the earth
and of those far off across the sea.(C)
7 You are robed in power,
you set up the mountains by your might.
8 You still the roaring of the seas,(D)
the roaring of their waves,
the tumult of the peoples.(E)
9 Distant peoples stand in awe of your marvels;
the places of morning and evening you make resound with joy.
10 You visit the earth and water it,
make it abundantly fertile.(F)
God’s stream is filled with water;
you supply their grain.
Thus do you prepare it:
11 you drench its plowed furrows,
and level its ridges.
With showers you keep it soft,
blessing its young sprouts.
12 You adorn the year with your bounty;
your paths drip with fruitful rain.
13 The meadows of the wilderness also drip;
the hills are robed with joy.
14 The pastures are clothed with flocks,
the valleys blanketed with grain;
they cheer and sing for joy.(G)
Footnotes
- Psalm 65
- 65:2
- 65:3
- 65:6
- 65:10–14
- 65:10
- 65:12
Cross references
- 65:3 : Is 66:23.
- 65:4 : Ps 32:1–2; 78:38; Is 1:18.
- 65:6 : Is 66:19.
- 65:8 : Ps 89:10; 107:29; Jb 38:11; Mt 8:26.
- 65:8 : Is 17:12.
- 65:10 : Lv 26:4; Is 30:23, 25; Jl 2:22–23.
- 65:14 : Is 44:23.
