Psalms 65

¹ [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David Song] Praise is rightful y yours, God, in Zion. Vows to you shallbe fulfil ed,

² for you answer prayer. All humanity must come to you

³ with its sinful deeds. Our faults overwhelm us, but you blot them out.

⁴ How blessed those whom you choose and invite to dwell in your courts. We shal be filled with thegood things of your house, of your holy temple.

⁵ You respond to us with the marvels of your saving justice, God our Saviour, hope of the whole wideworld, even the distant islands.

⁶ By your strength you hold the mountains steady, being clothed in power,

⁷ you calm the turmoil of the seas, the turmoil of their waves. The nations are in uproar, in panic thosewho live at the ends of the earth;

⁸ your miracles bring shouts of joy to the gateways of morning and evening.

⁹ You visit the earth and make it fruitful, you fill it with riches; the river of God brims over with water, youprovide the grain. To that end

¹⁰ you water its furrows abundantly, level its ridges, soften it with showers and bless its shoots.

¹¹ You crown the year with your generosity, richness seeps from your tracks,

¹² the pastures of the desert grow moist, the hillsides are wrapped in joy,

¹³ the meadows are covered with flocks, the val eys clothed with wheat; they shout and sing for joy.