Psalms 65:12

_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 manifested in bestowing the blessings of harvest. Verse 9. THOU VISITEST THE EARTH, AND WATEREST IT - literally, 'Thou makest it to run' or 'overflow' [Piel of _ SHUWQ_ (H7783)]. Like a munificent friend visiting one in need, and leaving behind a generous token of remembrance (Joel 2:14). THOU GREATLY ENRICHEST IT WITH THE RIVER OF GOD, WHICH IS FULL OF WATER - the fountain of fertilizing rain from above, which God has at command and which never, like earthly springs, runs dry (Deuteronomy 11:11). So spiritually,...

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 and darkness are to each other, it is hard to say which is most welcome. Does the watchman wait for the morning? so does the labourer earnestly desire the shades of evening. Some understand it of the morning and evening sacrifices. We are to look upon daily worship, both alone and with our families, to be the most needful of our daily occupations, the most delightful of our daily comforts. How much the fruitfulness of this lower part of the creation depends upon the influence of the upper, is easy to observe; every good and perfect gift is from above. He who enriches the earth, which is filled with man's sins, by his abundant and varied bounty, can neither want power nor will to feed the so...

Verse Psalms 65:12. _THE PASTURES OF THE WILDERNESS_] Even the places which are not cultivated have their _sufficiency of moisture_, so as to render them proper places of pasturage for cattle. The terms _wilderness_ and _desert_, in the Sacred Writings, mean, in general, places _not inhabited_ and _uncultivated_, though abounding with timber, bushes, and herbage. _THE LITTLE HILLS REJOICE_] Literally, _The hills gird themselves_ _with exultation_. The metaphor appears to be taken from the frisking of lambs, bounding of kids, and dancing of shepherds and shepherdesses, in the joy-inspiring summer season....

THEY DROP UPON THE PASTURES OF THE WILDERNESS - The waste places, or the waste parts of the land; the uncultivated places, the places of rocks and sands. The word wilderness in the Scriptures does not mean, as with us, a tract of country covered with trees, but a place of barren rocks or sands - an uncultivated or thinly inhabited region. See the notes at Matthew 3:1; notes at Isaiah 35:1. In those wastes, however, there would be valleys, or places watered by springs and streams that would afford pastures for flocks and herds. Such are the “pastures of the wilderness” referred to here. God’s passing along those valleys would seem to “drop,” or distil, fertility and beauty, causing grass and flowers to spring up in abundance, and clothing them with luxuriance....

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 of blessings in his courts (Psalms 65:4); and (4) as Deliverer of his people from their enemies (Psalms 65:5). Next, God is praised for his might and majesty in nature (Psalms 65:6). Lastly, he is praised for his goodness and bounty in conn

THEY DROP [UPON] THE PASTURES OF THE WILDERNESS,.... As well as upon the ploughed land, and turn them into a fruitful field; which may denote the Gentile world, whither the Gospel was sent by Christ, and preached by his apostles; and whose doctrines dropped as the rain, and prospered to the thing whereunto they were sent, and made this wilderness as the garden of God; AND THE LITTLE HILLS REJOICE ON EVERY SIDE; or "joy girds the hills"; or "they are girded with joy" r; or "gird themselves with joy", as the Targum; being covered on all sides with grass, herbs, and trees: these may denote the churches of Christ, and little hills of Sion, who rejoice when the interest of Christ flourishes, Psalms 68:14. r וגיל גבעות תחגרנה "collesque exultatione accinguntur", Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Ainsworth; "accinxerunt se", Pagninus; "accingent se",

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 restitution of all things as spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets since the world began. Here we get the visions of Israel's restoration, her spiritual blessings and her praise unto the Lord, and what will be the result for the nations and for all creation. We recommend a careful study in details by comparing Scripture with Scripture. In this Psalm Zion is mentioned first. It will be the joy of the whole earth and His praises will sound forth from the glorious place of His rest. Then He who answereth prayer unt

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._ Isaiah 66:23 and Joel 2:28), but is better taken in a wider sense. Psalms 65:3. Read, against us (LXX). PSALMS 65:5. For God's sovereignty in natur

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 joyous landscape rich with promise....

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 corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness: they drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks: the valleys also are covered over with corn: they shout for joy; they also sing_. ON what occasion this psalm was written is not certainly known: but it is probable that the inspired penman wrote it on the removal of the famine which God sent to punish the cruelty of Saul and of his bloody ho