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Salmos 65

ARC · Chapter 65/150

1A ti, ó Deus, espera o louvor em Sião, e a ti se pagará o voto.

2Ó tu que ouves as orações, a ti virá toda a carne.

3Prevalecem as iniquidades contra mim; porém tu expias as nossas transgressões.

4Bemaventurado aquelle a quem tu escolhes, e fazes chegar a ti, para que habite em teus atrios: nós seremos fartos da bondade da tua casa e do teu sancto templo.

5Pelas coisas tremendas em justiça nos responderás, ó Deus da nossa salvação; tu és a esperança de todas as extremidades da terra, e d'aquelles que estão longe sobre o mar.

6O que pela sua força consolida os montes, cingido de fortaleza:

7O que applaca o ruido dos mares, o ruido das suas ondas, e o tumulto das gentes.

8E os que habitam nos fins da terra temem os teus signaes; tu fazes alegres as saidas da manhã e da tarde.

9Tu visitas a terra, e a refrescas; tu a enriqueces grandemente com o rio de Deus, que está cheio d'agua; tu lhe preparas o trigo, quando assim a tens preparada.

10Enches d'agua os seus regos, fazendo-a descer em suas margens: tu a amoleces com a muita chuva: abençoas as suas novidades.

11Coroas o anno da tua bondade, e as tuas veredas distillam gordura.

12Distillam sobre os pastos do deserto, e os outeiros os cingem de alegria.

13Os campos se vestem de rebanhos, e os valles se cobrem de trigo: elles se regozijam e cantam.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

A song of praise that celebrates God as the one who hears prayers, forgives sins, and blesses the earth with rain and fertility, making the fields clothe themselves with flocks and the valleys cover themselves with grain.

Explanation

This psalm unites three themes of praise: forgiveness of sins, God's majesty over the sea and mountains, and his providential generosity in agriculture, essential for survival in an agrarian society like Israel's. The detailed image of rain that waters the furrows and softens the ground reflects practical agricultural knowledge of the time, celebrating God not only in dramatic events but in the ordinary, steady cycle of the seasons. Today's application: recognizing God's provision also in the everyday, regular things of life, like food and sustenance, not only in extraordinary miracles.

Fun facts

  • The image 'the fields clothe themselves with flocks, and the valleys cover themselves with grain' (v.13) uses clothing language to describe agricultural abundance, a Hebrew poetic device that personifies the land as if it were literally 'dressing itself' in plenty.
  • This psalm is traditionally associated with harvest celebrations in the Israelite agricultural calendar, being read in some Jewish traditions during festivals related to the land's abundance.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Salmos 65:1Zion is the mountain where Jerusalem stood, the seat of worship of God. "The vow be performed" refers to the custom of promising God an offering in exchange for help, fulfilled publicly once the request was granted.
  2. Salmos 65:2"All flesh" is a Hebrew expression for "all humanity," not a reference to physical bodies. The verse extends the reach of Israel's prayer to all the peoples of the earth.
  3. Salmos 65:3The weight of one's own sin seems greater than can be carried — but the verse already brings the contrast right after: it is God who covers and blots out that guilt.
  4. Salmos 65:4"Dwell in thy courts" describes the privilege of being a permanent guest in the temple's courtyards, the closest space to God's presence an ordinary person could reach — which is why that person is called blessed.
  5. Salmos 65:5Mentioning "all the ends of the earth" and those "afar off upon the sea" widens the psalm's horizon: God's salvation, prayed for in Jerusalem, also reaches distant peoples who never set foot there.
  6. Salmos 65:6"Girded with power" repeats the image of a king or warrior tying on his belt before battle, here applied to God setting the mountains firm — strength enough to sustain even the earth's geography.
  7. Salmos 65:7Stilling the noise of the sea and its waves is placed side by side with stilling "the tumult of the people": the same power that controls nature's chaos also controls the unrest among the nations.
  8. Salmos 65:8"The outgoings of the morning and evening" personifies sunrise and sunset as though they shouted for joy — the sky's daily order is treated as a silent praise that even distant peoples notice.
  9. Salmos 65:9"The river of God" does not refer to any specific river, but to rain pictured as a heavenly river that God opens over the earth to water the crops — an agricultural image of abundance, common in a region that depended entirely on rain coming at the right season.
  10. Salmos 65:10It details the process of a good rainy season: the furrows, the trenches cut into the ground for planting, fill with water, and the soil is softened by heavy showers, preparing the land for harvest.
  11. Salmos 65:11It describes a harvest so abundant it seems drenched in oil. "Fatness" here is a synonym for agricultural abundance and richness, not a literal substance dripping down the paths.
  12. Salmos 65:12The abundance of rain reaches even "the pastures of the wilderness," normally dry ground, and the little hills are described as though wrapped in a belt of joy — abundance arriving where least expected.
  13. Salmos 65:13The fields "clothed" with flocks and the valleys "covered" with grain personify nature: as if the whole landscape, covered in abundance, sang for joy along with whoever beholds it.

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