Mazmur 65:5-7

65:5 You answer our prayers by performing awesome acts of deliverance,

O God, our savior. ¹ 

All the ends of the earth trust in you, ² 

as well as those living across the wide seas. ³ 

65:6 You created the mountains by your power, ⁴ 

and demonstrated your strength. ⁵ 

65:7 You calm the raging seas ⁶ 

and their roaring waves,

as well as the commotion made by the nations. ⁷ 

[65:5]  ¹ tn Heb “[with] awesome acts in deliverance you answer us, O God of our salvation.”

[65:5]  ² tn Heb “a source of confidence [for] all the ends of the earth.”

[65:5]  sn All the ends of the earth trust in you. This idealistic portrayal of universal worship is typical hymnic hyperbole, though it does anticipate eschatological reality.

[65:5]  ³ tc Heb “and [the] distant sea.” The plural adjective is problematic after the singular form “sea.” One could emend יָם (yam, “sea”) to יָמִים (yamim, “seas”), or emend the plural form רְחֹקִים (rÿkhoqim, “far”) to the singular רָחֹק (rakhoq). In this case the final mem (ם) could be treated as dittographic; note the mem on the beginning of the first word in v. 6.

[65:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “[the] one who establishes [the] mountains by his power.”

[65:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “one [who] is girded with strength”; or “one [who] girds himself with strength.”

[65:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “the roar of the seas.”

[65:7]  ⁷ sn The raging seas…the commotion made by the nations. The raging seas symbolize the turbulent nations of the earth (see Ps 46:2-3, 6; Isa 17:12).