Psalms 65 · Verse 11

Psalms 65:11

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

Psalms 65:11, King James Version

Psalms 65:11 in other translations

BSB	You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
WEB	You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
ASV	Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; And thy paths drop fatness.
YLT	Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness.
DARBY	Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness:
BBE	The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,
Webster	Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

What does Psalms 65:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 65:6-13

6-13. God's great power and goodness are the grounds of this confidence. These are illustrated in His control of the mightiest agencies of nature and nations affecting men with awe and dread (Psa 26:7; 98:1, &c.), and in His fertilizing showers, causing the earth to produce abundantly for man and beast.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 11 Thou crownest the year - A full and plentiful harvest is the crown of the year; and this springs from the unmerited goodness of God. This is the diadem of the earth; עטרת ittarta, Thou encirclest, as with a diadem. A most elegant expression, to show the progress of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac, producing the seasons, and giving a sufficiency of light and heat alternately to all places on the surface of the globe, by its north and south declination (amounting to 23 28' at the solstices) on each side of the equator. A more beautiful image could not have been chosen; and the very appearance of the space termed the zodiac on a celestial globe, shows with what propriety the idea of a circle or diadem was conceived by this inimitable poet. Thy paths drop fatness - מעגליך magaleycha, "thy orbits." The various planets, which all have their revolutions within the zodiacal space, are represented as contributing their part to the general fructification of the year. Or perhaps the solar revolution through the twelve signs, dividing the year into twelve parts or months, may be here intended; the rains of November and February, the frosts and snows of December and January, being as necessary for the fructification of the soil, as the gentle showers of spring, the warmth of summer, and the heat and drought of autumn. The earth's diurnal rotation on its axis, its annual revolution in its orbit, and the moon's course in aecompanying the earth, are all wheels or orbits of God, which drop fatness, or produce fertility in the earth.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 65:6-13

That Almighty strength which sets fast the mountains, upholds the believer. That word which stills the stormy ocean, and speaks it into a calm, can silence our enemies. How contrary soever light and darkness are to each other, it is hard to say which is most welcome. Does the watchman wait for the morning? so does the labourer earnestly desire the shades of evening. Some understand it of the morning and evening…

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Psalms 65:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עִ֭טַּרְתָּ'I.tar.tayou crownH5849

שְׁנַ֣תshe.Nat[the] year ofH8141

טוֹבָתֶ֑ךָtoa.Te.khagoodness yourH2896

וּ֝מַעְגָּלֶ֗יךָu.ma'.ga.Lei.khaand tracks yourH4570

יִרְעֲפ֥וּןyir.'a.Funthey drip !H7491

דָּֽשֶׁן\׃Da.shenfatnessH1880

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 65:11

Joel 2:21-26
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. …
Psalms 103:4
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Psalms 5:12
For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Psalms 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Haggai 2:19
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Proverbs 14:18
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Hebrews 2:7-9
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Psalms 25:10
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Joel 2:14
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?
Job 36:28
Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
Romans 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

crownest.
5:12; *marg:
103:4; Pr 14:18; Heb 2:7-9
with thy. Heb. of thy. thy paths.
25:10; 104:3; Joe 2:14,21-26; Hag 2:19; Mal 3:10
fatness.
36:8; Ro 11:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Psalms 65:10
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Psalms 65:11
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
Psalms 65:12
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.

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Psalms 65:11 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Tú coronas el año de tus bienes; y tus nubes destilan grosura.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Tu arroses ses sillons, tu aplanis ses mottes, tu l’amollis par des ondées, tu bénis son germe.
German Elberfelder 1871	Du hast gekrönt das Jahr deiner Güte, und deine Spuren triefen von Fett.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Induxisti nos in laqueum; posuisti tribulationes in dorso nostro;