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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Psalms 65"
description: "PSALM 65   :-. This is a song of praise for God"
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PSALM 65

. This is a song of praise for God's spiritual blessings
to His people and His kind providence over all the earth.

**1. Praise waiteth for
thee**—literally, "To Thee silence praise," or (compare
[Psalms 62:1](../../../kjv/psalms/62/1)), To Thee silence is
praise—that is, Praise is waiting as a servant; it is due to Thee.
So the last clause expresses the duty of paying vows. These two parts
of acceptable worship, mentioned in [Psalms 62:1](../../../kjv/psalms/62/1), are rendered in Zion, where God chiefly displays His mercy
and receives homage.

**2.** All are encouraged to pray by
God's readiness to hear.

**3.** God's mercy alone delivers us
from the burden of iniquities, by purging or expiating by an
atonement the transgressions with which we are charged, and which are
denoted by—
**Iniquities**—or,
literally, "Words of iniquities."

**4. dwell in thy courts; . . .**
[and] **satisfied with the goodness . . . temple**—denote
communion with God ([Psalms 15:1](../../../kjv/psalms/15/1);
[Psalms 23:6](../../../kjv/psalms/23/6); compare [Psalms 23:6](../../../kjv/psalms/23/6)). This is a blessing for all God's people, as denoted by the
change of number.

**5. terrible things**—that is, by
the manifestation of justice and wrath to enemies, accompanying that
of mercy to His people ([Psalms 63:9-11](../../../kjv/psalms/63/9-11);
[Psalms 64:7-9](../../../kjv/psalms/64/7-9)).
**the confidence**—object
of it.
**of all . . . earth**—the
whole world; that is, deservedly such, whether men think so or not.

**6-13.** God's great power and
goodness are the grounds of this confidence. These are illustrated in
His control of the mightiest agencies of nature and nations affecting
men with awe and dread ([Psalms 26:7](../../../kjv/psalms/26/7);
[Psalms 98:1](../../../kjv/psalms/98/1), &c.), and in His
fertilizing showers, causing the earth to produce abundantly for man
and beast.

**8. outgoings of . . . rejoice**—*all*
people from east to west.

**9. visitest**—in mercy (compare
[Psalms 8:4](../../../kjv/psalms/8/4)).
**river of God**—His
exhaustless resources.

**6-13.** God's great power and
goodness are the grounds of this confidence. These are illustrated in
His control of the mightiest agencies of nature and nations affecting
men with awe and dread ([Psalms 26:7](../../../kjv/psalms/26/7);
[Psalms 98:1](../../../kjv/psalms/98/1), &c.), and in His
fertilizing showers, causing the earth to produce abundantly for man
and beast.

**11. thy paths**—ways of
providence ([Psalms 25:4](../../../kjv/psalms/25/4); [Psalms 25:10](../../../kjv/psalms/25/10)).

**12. wilderness**—places, though
not inhabited by men, fit for pasture ([Leviticus 16:21](../../../kjv/leviticus/16/21);
[Leviticus 16:22](../../../kjv/leviticus/16/22); [Job 24:5](../../../kjv/job/24/5)).
**pastures**—is literally,
"folds," or "enclosures for flocks"; and in [Job 24:5](../../../kjv/job/24/5) it may be "lambs," the same word used and so
translated in [Psalms 37:20](../../../kjv/psalms/37/20); so
that "the flocks are clothed with lambs" (a figure for
abundant increase) would be the form of expression.

**6-13.** God's great power and
goodness are the grounds of this confidence. These are illustrated in
His control of the mightiest agencies of nature and nations affecting
men with awe and dread ([Psalms 26:7](../../../kjv/psalms/26/7);
[Psalms 98:1](../../../kjv/psalms/98/1), &c.), and in His
fertilizing showers, causing the earth to produce abundantly for man
and beast.

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