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Psalms 65:2

O Thou that hearest prayer, this being the special attribute of God, unto Thee shall all flesh come, all creatures, but especially the believers, taking their refuge with Him, with a firm trust in His ability and in His willingness to help.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 65:2. _UNTO THEE SHALL ALL FLESH COME._] All _human beings_ should pray to God; and from him alone the sufficient portion of human spirits is to be derived. It is supposed to be a predic...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    O THOU THAT HEAREST PRAYER - Who hast revealed thyself as a God hearing prayer - one of the leading characteristics of whose nature it is that thou dost hear prayer. Literally, “Hearer of prayer, to t...

  • 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._...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FLESH. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for all mankind: i.e. the people....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _O thou that hearest prayer_ God is thus addressed, because He has given His people cause for the present thanksgiving by hearing their prayers. But the words are more than a reference to a particular...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    It is the duty of a grateful people to render thanks to God in the Temple, assembling to pay its vows to the universal Hearer of prayer. The consciousness of manifold sins might deter them from approa...

  • 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

    _O THOU THAT HEAREST PRAYER, UNTO THEE SHALL ALL FLESH COME._ O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. "Flesh" implies the idea of weakness and need (cf. Psalms 56:4). God has an i...

  • 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

    ALL FLESH] God is thought of as the God, not only of Israel, but of all the world: cp. 5b....

  • 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

    UNTO THEE SHALL ALL FLESH COME. — This has usually, and most truly, been taken as prophetic of the extension of the true religion to the Gentiles. But we must not let what was, in the Divine providenc...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 65:3]_ שֹׁמֵ֥עַ תְּפִלָּ֑ה עָ֝דֶ֗יךָ כָּל ־בָּשָׂ֥ר...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all (b) flesh come. (b) Not only the Jews but also the Gentiles in the kingdom of Christ....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is the immediate act of prayer, and praise in consequence of God's answering. If praise waited! for God, he will not suffer his praying people, or his praising people, to wait long. Well may all...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE HEARER OF PRAYER_ ‘O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come.’ Psalms 65:2 (with Php_4:6). Taking for granted the existence of a personal God, the question arises, Does this in...

  • 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

    O THOU THAT HEAREST PRAYER,.... So as to answer it sooner or later, in one way or another, and always in the fittest time, and in the best way; so as to fulfil the requests and supply the wants of men...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. Ver. 2. _O thou that hearest prayer_] And art thereby known to be the true God, 1 Kings 18:38,39, and no such dull deity as the heathens wo...

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

    _O thou that hearest prayer_ That usest and delightest to hear and answer the prayers of thy people in Zion; which he justly mentions as one of the chiefest of God's favours vouchsafed to his church;...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 All the praise the Lord receives from this earth is from Zion, being the fruit of the Spirit of Christ, and acceptable through him. Praise is silent unto thee, as wanting words to express the gre...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THAT HEAREST PRAYER; that usest and delightest to hear and answer the prayers of thy people in Zion; which he justly mentions as one of the chiefest of God's favours and privileges vouchsafed to his c...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 65:2 hear H8085 (H8802) prayer H8605 flesh H1320 come H935 (H8799) thou - Psalms 66:19

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HEADING. ‘For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A Song of David.' The heading is brief noting the regular dedication to the Chief Musician. It is described both as a Psalm, and as a song of David. ‘Song'...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 65:2 _(with Philippians 4:6)_ Taking for granted the existence of a personal God, the question arises, Does this involve, by necessary consequence, that, to use the language of the Bible, this...

  • 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

    _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 Biblical Illustrator

    _O Thou that hearest prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come._ GOD’S HEARING OF PRAYER What avails prayer if it be not heard? But the text comforts us by the title it ascribes to God, and by the effe...

  • 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 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

    1 John 5:14; 1 John 5:15; 1 Kings 18:29; 1 Kings 18:37; 2 Chr

  • 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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