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Psalms 65:11

Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness, the favor of His kind providence resting upon the year like a diadem or crown; and Thy paths drop fatness, that is, fruitfulness in overabundance follows the footsteps of the Lord or the track of His chariot.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 65:11. _THOU CROWNEST THE YEAR_] A full and _plentiful harvest_ is the _crown_ of the year; and this springs from the unmerited _goodness_ of God. This is the _diadem_ of the earth; עטרת...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU CROWNEST THE YEAR WITH THY GOODNESS - Margin, the year of thy goodness. The Hebrew is literally the year of thy goodness - meaning a year remarkable for the manifestation of kindness; or a year o...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 65 The Times of Restitution and Refreshing _ 1. Spiritual blessings (Psalms 65:1)_ 2. Earthly glories and blessing (Psalms 65:6) The four next Psalms unfold prophetically the times of resti...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXV. A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. Psalms 65:1. For pardon and the joy of Temple worship. PSALMS 65:1. WAITETH FOR: read beseemeth (LXX). Psalms 65:2. all flesh may mean no more than all Jews (_cf._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The special object of the Psalm thanksgiving for the plenty of the year. First, grateful acknowledgment that the rains which have fertilised the soil were God's gift; then a charming picture of a joyo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Thou crownest_&c. Thou hast crowned the year of thy goodness, added fresh beauty and perfection to a year already marked by special bounty, _and thy paths drop fatness_, rich blessings fall as Thou t...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 604 GOD’S WORKS OF PROVIDENCE AND GRACE Psalms 65:9. Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water; thou preparest them c...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 65 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Israel's Temple-Song of Praise, on behalf of Herself and all Nations, chiefly in Grateful Acknowledgment of Seedtime and Harvest. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 65:1-4, Prep...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU VISITEST THE EARTH, AND WATEREST IT: THOU GREATLY ENRICHEST IT WITH THE RIVER OF GOD, WHICH IS FULL OF WATER: THOU PREPAREST THEM CORN, WHEN THOU HAST SO PROVIDED FOR IT._ -God's power manifest...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The allusions to the Temple worship show that this Ps. belongs to a later age than David's. As to its occasion we can gather that a national religious festival at Jerusalem was in view (Psalms 65:1),...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    READ, 'Thou crownest the year of thy goodness' (RM). The prospect of a rich harvest was only the last gift in a year of many blessings and deliverances. THY PATHS DROP FATNESS] God is pictured as walk...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU CROWNEST. — Better, _hast crowned._ We generally connect the idea of _completion_ with this metaphor, but the original thought in the Hebrew word, as in the Greek στέφω_,_ is probably to _encompa...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 65:12]_ עִ֭טַּרְתָּ שְׁנַ֣ת טֹובָתֶ֑ךָ וּ֝ מַעְגָּלֶ֗יךָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 65:1 THIS and the two following psalms form a little group, with one great thought dominant in each, namely, that God's manifestations of grace and providence to Israel are witnesses to the wor...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ABUNDANT FAVOR FROM OUR GRACIOUS GOD Psalms 65:1 This joyous hymn was probably composed for use in the sanctuary at one of the great annual festivals. It deals expressly with God's bounty in the fer...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a great song of worship. The occasion would seem to be that of a harvest festival. The people are assembled for praise (verses Psa 65:1-4). God's particular goodness in the harvest is celebrat...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Back. Hebrew, "loins." The Captives had experienced the greatest miseries, as the martyrs of Christ have done since. (Calmet) --- The Church is put to the most severe trials. (Worthington) --- Yet Go...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I have not broken the thread of the subject in these verses, because the whole, taken together, forms a most beautiful description of the divine bounty in those several productions of nature. The bles...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11_Thou crownest the year with thy goodness _(461) Some read — _Thou crownest the year _of _thy goodness; _as if the Psalmist meant that the fertile year had a peculiar glory attached to it, and were...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 65, 66 AND 67. In Psalms 65-67 we have the bright side, the bright and joyful confidence of the saint who is conscious of being heard, and who, though not yet in...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU CROWNEST THE YEAR WITH THY GOODNESS,.... The whole circling year, from one end of it to the other; particularly that season of it when the harvest is gathered in; the seed being sown, the earth w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. Ver. 11. _Thou crownest the year with thy goodness_] While each month produceth its several fruits or commodities; so that the wh...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou crownest the year with thy goodness_ Thou, by thy powerful goodness, dost enrich and adorn all the seasons of the year with their proper fruits and blessings. _And thy paths_ Either, 1st, _Thy c...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE YEAR WITH THY GOODNESS: _ Heb._ the year of thy goodness...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-13 That Almighty strength which sets fast the mountains, upholds the believer. That word which stills the stormy ocean, and speaks it into a calm, can silence our enemies. How contrary soever light...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Thou, by thy powerful goodness, dost enrich and adorn all the seasons of the year with their proper fruits and blessings. THY PATHS; the clouds, upon which God is frequently said to walk or ride, as J...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 65:11 crown H5849 (H8765) year H8141 goodness H2896 paths H4570 drip H7491 (H8799) abundance H1880...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    3). AS WELL AS EXERCISING IRON CONTROL THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR ALSO MAKES FULL PROVISION FOR THE NEEDS OF HIS CREATION MAKING THE FIELDS AND PASTURELANDS BLOSSOM AND FLOURISH (PSALMS 65:9). As well as ex...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 65 This Psalm was evidently composed on the occasion of an abundant harvest, and was doubtless intended to be sung at the feast of harvest, the joyous feast of tabernacles. I. The abundant har...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David gives to God the glory of His power and goodness. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Praise is due to God from all the world because of His mighty works, but praise especially waits...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 65:2. _To thee shall all flesh come._ The gentile nations, in the uttermost parts of the earth, as in Psalms 65:5; Psalms 65:8; Psalms 22:27;...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness: and Thy paths drop fatness._ THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER Nothing can be more right than that Christian people should publicly render thanksgiving to the God of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Which by His strength setteth fast the mountains: being girded with power._ GOD AS HE APPEARS IN MATERIAL NATURE I. God in material nature working. 1. Settling (Psalms 65:6). He keeps all things i...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Praise waiteth for Thee, O God, in Zion: and unto Thee shall the vow be performed._ A HARVEST HYMN This is a psalm of thanksgiving for plentiful rain, falling at the critical time in a year of drou...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 65:1. This is a thanksgiving for a fruitful harvest (vv. Psalms 65:9), which has come because of God’s faithfulness to his covenant promises (v

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 65:9 The psalmist imagines what the ground itself would feel under God’s blessing. This is a land producing abundantly for man and beast. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Psalm and song of David_.” Or, “_A Psalm of David, a song_.” See Introduction to Psalms 48. In the Psalm it...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS is a Song of unmixed praise and thankfulness. God is first praised for his moral qualities: (1) as Hearer of prayer (Psalms 65:2); (2) as Pardoner of sin (Psalms 65:3); (3) as Giver...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 65:1-13 is another psalm of David and this psalm looks forward to the glorious Kingdom Age when Jesus is reigning upon the earth. And so this is a prophetic psalm, going on in to the next age that...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Haggai 2:19; Hebrews 2:7; Joel 2:14; Joel 2:21; Malachi 3:10;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    ISRAEL'S COMING DAY Psalms 65:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of the Psalms must remain for a great part a closed Book unless we remember that David was a Prophet, and that being a Prophet he wrote m...

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