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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 65:3

Iniquities prevail, &c.— Our iniquities prevail against us; but thou art he who blottest out our transgressions. This was an encouragement for all men to address their prayers to God, who was so ready to hear them. Green and Mudge.

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See also Psalms 65:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 65:3. _INIQUITIES PREVAIL AGAINST ME_] This is no just rendering of the original, דברי עונת גברו מני _dibrey avonoth_ _gaberu menni_; "iniquitous words have prevailed against me," or, "Th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    INIQUITIES PREVAIL AGAINST ME - Margin, as in Hebrew, Words, or matters of iniquities. The literal meaning is words; and the idea may be that words spoken in iniquity, or slanderous words spoken by ot...

  • 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

    INIQUITIES. iniquitous words. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. TRANSGRESSIONS. Hebrew. _pasha'._ App-44. PURGE THEM AWAY. cover them by atonement....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Iniquities_ Lit., _words_, or, _matters of iniquities:_many various items of iniquity. Cp. for the same idiom Psalms 105:27; Psalms 145:5. Virtually the clause is a protasis to the second line: Thou...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 602 CONSOLATION IN GOD Psalms 65:3. _Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away._ FROM reading the experience of the saints, as recorded in the Ho...

  • 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

    _INIQUITIES PREVAIL AGAINST ME: AS FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, THOU SHALT PURGE THEM AWAY._ Iniquities prevail against me - literally 'matters of iniquities ' (Psalms 105:27 margin) Even in thanksgivings...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    65:3 forgive (b-10) Lit. 'make atonement,' as Leviticus 16:30 ; Deuteronomy 21:8 ; Psalms 78:38 ; Psalms 79:9 . see Note g,...

  • 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

    ME.. OUR] The Psalmist speaks, now for himself, now in the name of the nation....

  • 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

    INIQUITIES. — Literally, _Words_ (or, _things_)_ of iniquities, i.e.,_ details of crime, or instances of wickedness. (Comp. Psalms 35:20; Psalms 105:27; Psalms 145:5.) PREVAIL. — Better, have prevai

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 65:4]_ דִּבְרֵ֣י עֲ֭וֹנֹת גָּ֣בְרוּ מֶ֑נִּי פְּ֝שָׁעֵ֗ינוּ

  • 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

    Iniquities (c) prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. (c) He imputes it to his sins and to the sins of the people that God who was accustomed to afflict them wit...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Lie. Prove faithless to thee, (Psalm xvii. 46., &c.) notwithstanding the evidence of thy wonders, and their deceitful professions. Thus the Samaritans pretended they wished to assist the Jews to build...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we arrive at the chief subject of this praise, which waited for God in Christ's church at Zion, namely, redemption by Christ's blood. For what shall purge or wash away iniquities, but the blood o...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3_Words of iniquity have prevailed against me _(447) He does not complain of the people being assailed with calumny, but is to be understood as confessing that their sins were the cause of any interru...

  • 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

    INIQUITIES PREVAIL AGAINST ME,.... Or, "are mightier than I" h; this may be understood either of the iniquities of others, his enemies; their "words of iniquities" i or iniquitous words, as in the Heb...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Iniquities prevail against me: [as for] our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. Ver. 3. _Iniquities prevail against me_] And seek to choke my prayers; they prick me in the foot, as it were, t...

  • 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;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Iniquities prevail against me, cases or varieties of iniquity have overcome him as with a superior hostile power. AS FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, the great burden of which belongs to the crosses of the bel...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THANKSGIVING FOR THE BLESSINGS OF THE LORD. To the chief musician, for performance in public worship, a psalm and song of David, composed for the purpose of praising God for His spiritual blessings u...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    INIQUITIES PREVAIL: _ Heb._ words or matters of iniquities...

  • 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

    INIQUITIES PREVAIL AGAINST ME; they are a burden too heavy for me, as he complains, PSALMS 38:4. They are so many and great, that for them thou mightest justly reject my prayers, and destroy my person...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 65:3 Iniquities H1697 H5771 prevail H1396 (H8804) transgressions H6588 atonement H3722 (H8762) prevail -...

  • 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 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

    _Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, Thou shalt purge them away._ SIN OVERCOMING AND OVERCOME There is an intended contrast in these two clauses, between man’s impotence and God...

  • 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 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 1:7; 2 Samuel 12:7; Galatians 5:17; Hebrews 9:14; Isaiah 1:18

  • 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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