Psalms 65:13

The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
pastures	כָרִ֨ים kha.Rim	H3733	a ram (as full-grown and fat) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
clothed	לָבְשׁ֬וּ la.ve.Shu	H3847	properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
flocks	הַצֹּ֗אן ha.Tzon	H6629	a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats) · definite article + noun, common both genders singular absolute
valleys	וַעֲמָקִ֥ים va.'a.ma.Kim	H6010	a vale (i.e. broad depression) · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute
over	יַֽעַטְפוּ ya.'at.fu-	H5848	to shroud · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
corn	בָ֑ר Var	H1250	grain of any kind (even while standing in the field) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
joy	יִ֝תְרוֹעֲע֗וּ yit.ro.'a.'U	H7321	to mar (especially by breaking) · verb, hithpael imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
sing	יָשִֽׁירוּ ya.Shi.ru	H7891	to sing · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Isaiah 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all th…
Isaiah 35:1-2 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah 30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat…
Acts 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our heart…
Psalms 96:11-13 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 98:7-9 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and eve…
Psalms 72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the ci…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 65:6–end

That we may be the more affected with the wonderful condescensions of the God of grace, it is of use to observe his power and sovereignty as the God of nature, the riches and bounty of his providential kingdom. I. He establishes the earth and it abides, Psa 119:90. By his own strength he setteth fast the mountains (Psa 65:6), did set them fast at first and still keeps them firm, though they are sometimes shaken by earthquakes. - Feriuntque summos. Fulmina montes. The lightning blasts and loftiest hills. Hence they are called everlasting mountains, Hab 3:6. yet God's covenant with his people is said to stand more firmly than they, Isa 54:10. II. He stills the sea, and it is quiet, Psa 65:7. T…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 65:12

wilderness--places, though not inhabited by men, fit for pasture (Lev 16:21-22; Job 24:5). pastures--is literally, "folds," or "enclosures for flocks"; and in Psa 65:13 it may be "lambs," the same word used and so translated in Psa 37:20; so that "the flocks are clothed with lambs" (a figure for abundant increase) would be the form of expression. Next: Psalms Chapter 66

John Gill on Psalms 65:13

The pastures are clothed with flocks,.... Of sheep, which are so thick, that there is scarce anything to be seen upon the pastures but them; which look as if they were clothed with them: these may intend the multitude of converts, signified by the flocks of Kedar, and rams of Nebaioth; which gathering about the church, and joining to her, she clothes herself with them as with an ornament, Isaiah 60:7 it may be rendered the "rams clothe", or "cover, the flocks" (s); or the flocks are clothed, or covered, with the rams, as expressive of their copulation with them; and so the Targum, "the rams ascend upon the flocks;'' which sense is favoured by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Ar…

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John Calvin on Psalms 65:9–end

The Church Fathers

"Clothed have been the rams of the sheep" [Psalm 65:13]: "with exultation" must be understood. For with what exultation the hills are encircled, with the same are clothed the rams of the sheep. Rams are the very same as hills. For hills they are because of more eminent grace; rams, because they are leaders of the flocks...."They shall shout:" thence they shall abound with wheat, because they shall shout. What shall they shout? "For a hymn they shall say." For one thing it is to shout against God, another thing to say a hymn; one thing to shout iniquities, another thing to shout the praises of God. If you shout in blasphemy, thorns you have brought forth: if you shout in a hymn, you abound in wheat.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 65

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Dictionary and topics

Corn — The word so rendered (dagan) in Gen. 27:28, 37, Num. 18:27, Deut. 28:51, Lam. 2:12, is a general term representing all the commodities we usually describe by the words corn, grain, seeds, peas,…
Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Valley — (1.) Heb. bik’ah, a “cleft” of the mountains (Deut. 8:7; 11:11; Ps. 104:8; Isa. 41:18); also a low plain bounded by mountains, as the plain of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon around the sources of the…
Corn · In valleys — In valleys
Sheep · Flocks of: Frequently covered the pastures — Flocks of: Frequently covered the pastures
Valleys · Of Israel well tilled and fruitful — Of Israel well tilled and fruitful

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 65:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 65:6–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 65:12

John Gill on Psalms 65:13

John Calvin on Psalms 65:9–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 65:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 65:6–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 65:12

John Gill on Psalms 65:13

John Calvin on Psalms 65:9–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 65:9–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 65:13

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 65:13