Psalm 65

Setting

In Zion praise awaits you, Lord;

Free Church of Scotland psalter · C.M.

The words

In Zion praise awaits you, Lord; to you our vows we’ll pay. To you all people will come near; you hear us when we pray.

When we were overwhelmed by sins, and guilt upon us lay, You pardoned all our trespasses and washed our guilt away.

How blessed are those you choose, and bring within your courts of grace! We’re filled with blessings in your house, in your most holy place.

With awesome deeds of righteousness you answer us, O God, Our Saviour, hope of farthest seas and all the earth abroad.

By strength and power you formed the hills. You hushed the oceans’ voice; You calmed the tumult of their waves and stilled the peoples’ noise.

Those who inhabit distant lands with awe regard your ways; Where morning dawns and evening fades, you call forth songs of praise.

You tend the land and water it; you make it rich and good. As you ordained, your streams are full to give the people food.

You drench the furrows of the land; you level off the ground. You soften it with showers of rain and make its crops abound.

You crown the year with fruitfulness; your harvests overflow. The grassland flourishes again; the hills with gladness glow.

The pastures green with flocks are clothed, the meadows covering. The valleys deck themselves with corn; they shout for joy and sing.

Source & provenance

Free Church of Scotland psalter · psalter

An unedited transcription of the Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003) edition.

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Base edition
Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003)
Editor
Psalmody Committee of the Free Church of Scotland
Editing
unedited transcription

Rights

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Tunes it can be sung to

2 tunes

  • Billing

    curated well-matched

    CM

  • Huddersfield

    curated well-matched

    CM

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