Psalms 65:5 - Exposition

By terrible things in righteousness ( i.e. "by terrible acts of righteous judgment upon our enemies") wilt thou answer us. This is a sequel to Psalms 65:2 . As God hears prayer and answers it, so when his people cry to him for protection and deliverance from their foes, the result can only be righteous judgments of a fearful character upon the persecutors. O God of our salvation; i.e. God through whom we obtain salvation. Who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth (see the comment on Psalms 65:2 , and comp. Psalms 65:8 ). And of them that are afar off upon the sea; literally, and of the sea of those afar off. The reading is, perhaps, corrupt.