Psalm 65:8-13

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 65:8

and evening. Supply Ellipsis from preceding clause: "and [the incomings of the] evening". to rejoice = to shout for joy. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 65:9

river. Hebrew. peleg. Always plural, except here; and always connected with a garden. See notes on Psalms 1:3 and Proverbs 21:1 . Compare Revelation 22:1 , Revelation 22:2 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 65:10

makest it soft = dissolvest it. Until the early rains fall, the ground is as hard as a rock. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 65:13

To the chief Musician. See App-64 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 65:10

PRAISING GOD FOR AN ABUNDANT HARVEST"Thou waterest its furrows abundantly;Thou settest the ridges thereof:Thou makest it soft with showers;Thou blessest the springing thereof.Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;And thy paths drop fatness.They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness;And the hills are girded with joy.The pastures are clothed with flocks;The valleys also are covered over with grain;They shout for joy, they also sing."The theme here is not so much, "Thank God for a bountiful... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 65:8

Psalms 65:8. They also that dwell, &c.— That is, "The remotest and most barbarous people are struck with the dread of thee, when thou alarmest them by any unusual tokens of thy power;" such as extraordinary thunders, lightnings, and storms. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 65:9-13

Psalms 65:9-13. Thou visitest the earth, &c.— A complete comment upon this sacred hymn, says Dr. Delaney, is not the work either of my province or genius; and therefore I shall only observe, that the last five verses of it are the most rapturous, truly poetic, and natural image of joy, that imagination can form or comprehend. The reader of taste will see this in the simplest translation, Psalms 65:9, &c. Thou hast visited the earth; thou madest it to covet, and hast enriched it. The... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 65:8

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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 65:9

9. visitest—in mercy (compare Psalms 8:4). river of God—His exhaustless resources. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 65:10

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; Psalms 98:1, &c.), and in His fertilizing showers, causing the earth to produce abundantly for man and beast. read more

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