Salmi 65:2-12

2 O tu ch’esaudisci la preghiera, ogni carne verrà a te.

3 Le iniquità mi hanno sopraffatto, ma tu farai l’espiazione delle nostre trasgressioni.

4 Beato colui che tu eleggi e fai accostare a te perché abiti ne’ tuoi cortili! Noi sarem saziati de’ beni della tua casa, della santità del tuo tempio.

5 In modi tremendi tu ci rispondi, nella tua giustizia, o Dio della nostra salvezza, confidanza di tutte le estremità della terra e dei mari lontani.

6 Egli con la sua potenza rende stabili i monti; egli è cinto di forza.

7 Egli acqueta il rumore de’ mari, il rumore de’ loro flutti, e il tumulto de’ popoli.

8 Perciò quelli che abitano alle estremità della terra temono alla vista de’ tuoi prodigi; tu fai giubilare i luoghi ond’escono la mattina e la sera.

9 Tu visiti la terra e l’adacqui, tu l’arricchisci grandemente. I ruscelli di Dio son pieni d’acqua; tu prepari agli uomini il grano, quando prepari così la terra;

10 tu adacqui largamente i suoi solchi, ne pareggi le zolle, l’ammollisci con le piogge, ne benedici i germogli.

11 Tu coroni de’ tuoi beni l’annata, e dove passa il tuo carro stilla il grasso.

12 Esso stilla sui pascoli del deserto, e i colli son cinti di gioia.

Salmi 65:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, A Psalm [and] Song of David. Some copies of the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions read "a song of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, "sung" by the people of the captivity, when they were about to come out;" and some copies have "Haggai": but though it is possible it might be sung upon that occasion, it is certain it was not then composed, but was written by David, as the genuine title shows: as for Jeremiah; he was not carried captive to Babylon, and Ezekiel died before the return of the people from it; nor is there anything in the psalm relating to that captivity. The title of it, indeed, in the Arabic version, is concerning the captivity of the people; which it seems to have taken from some Greek copy; and Kimchi and Arama interpret it of the captivity of the people of the Jews; but then they mean their present captivity, and their deliverance from it. According to the title of it in the Syriac version, the occasion of it was the bringing up of the ark of God to Sion; and Aben Ezra is of opinion that David composed the psalm at that time; or that one of the singers composed it at the building of the temple, and which he thinks is right, and perhaps is concluded from Psalm 65:1; and who also says it was composed in a year of drought; but it rather seems to have been written in a year of great plenty, as the latter part of it shows; and the whole seems to respect the fruitful, flourishing, and happy state of the church in Gospel times, for which it is a song of praise.