Psalm 65 - Overcomer - You Crown the Year with Your Goodness

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For this reason, this psalm is like a good friend to me.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Sequence of this psalm:</U></div> <div> Silence, praise (v1)</div> <div> A vow paid (v1)</div> <div> Him that hears prayer (v2)</div> <div> All flesh will at the end stand before God (v2)</div> <div> Sins are stronger than me (v3)</div> <div> Forgiven of sins (v3)</div> <div> Chosen (v4)</div> <div> Caused to draw near to God (v4)</div> <div> Abide in His courts (v4)</div> <div> Satisfied with His goodness in His church (v4)</div> <div> Miracles in answer to prayer (v5)</div> <div> God of salvation (V5)</div> <div> Blessing to all the earth (VV5-13)</div> <bR> <div> "This is one of the most delightful hymns in any language. We shall view in Ps 65:1-4 the way of approach to God, then from vv 5-8 we shall see the Lord in answer to prayer performing wonders for which he is praised, and then from vv 9-13 we shall sing the special harvest song." - C. H. Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="head"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>heading</B> - This psalm is both a psalm (mizmor) and a song (shir) and it is for the <A HREF="psalms.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalms practical details of the Godman ">overcome</A>r. This psalm is the 1st of a group of 4 psalm-songs that are to the overcomer, Psalms 65-68. There are 3 other overcomer psalm-songs: 75-76 & 88.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="e1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#1_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v1</B></A><B> </B>I have 2 favorite verses in this psalm, this verse and <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">v10</A>. I also love <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">v11</A>. This verse opens the door for all the following blessings.</div> <bR> <div> Most translate this verse as "Praise waits for Thee in silence", but there is no verb "waits" in this sentence. The phrase "to <person> <noun>" usually means "<noun> belongs to that person" (i.e. <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#ps47_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Ps 47:9; 62:11-12</A>).</div> <div> The words "silence" and "praise" are in apposition. They are one thing. When we come to God, it is good to first be silent, to stop my thoughts, so I can listen to God. </div> <bR> <div> "Each time, before you intercede, be quiet and worship God in His glory. Think of what he can do and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!" - Andrew Murray</div> <bR> <div> "We all must take the time to be silent and to contemplate, especially those who live in big cities where everything moves so fast ... I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence - we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters. Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God. It also gives you a clean and pure heart. A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others." - Mother Teresa</div> <bR> <div> From our side it is silence followed by praise. From God's side to us it is a small voice followed by silence (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#1ki19_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">1Ki 19:12-13</A>) to allow what God says to sink in.</div> <bR> <div> Where does silence, praise belong to God? In Zion, that is in the gatherings together of all God's people as one (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#ps87_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Ps 87.2</A>). In corporate gatherings we need to have uncomfortable silence so we can hear God together.</div> <bR> <div> "Certainly, when the soul is most filled with adoring awe, she is least content with her own expressions, and feels most deeply how inadequate are all mortal songs to proclaim the divine goodness. A church, bowed in silent adoration by a profound sense of divine mercy, would certainly offer more real praise than the sweetest voices aided by pipes and strings; yet, vocal music is not to be neglected, for this sacred hymn was meant to be sung. It is well before singing to have the soul placed in a waiting attitude, and to be humbly conscious that our best praise is but silence compared with Jehovah's glory. " - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> As I pray, my attitude should be one of silent expectation. - Andrew Murray</div> <div> As I wait silently before God, I become strong in the assurance of faith. - Andrew Murray</div> <bR> <div> A vow is a solemn promise we make to God. Ecclesiastes 5 puts together silence before speaking to God with vowing a vow (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#eccl5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Eccl 5:1-7</A>). Before God, silence is followed by praise and sometimes a solemn vow. I made a vow for this year to spend 2 minutes of silence before prayer each day for 30 days. Don't make a vow unless you will fulfill it.</div> <div> Vows from human beings are precious to God. They are gifts to Him.</div> <bR> <div> "In Zion" does not modify "pay a vow" because of the "and" between them. Vows should be made privately when there is no pressure to please men. It is often good to share them publicly after making them in private so that others will help you fulfill it. The powerful silence, praise in the corporate gatherings of the church, especially conferences, may result in private individual vows. Vows are mentioned in the NT in only 3 places: <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#act18_18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Acts 18:18; 21:23; James 5:15</A>.</div> <bR> <div> David knew what it was to pay a vow (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#ps132_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Ps 132:1-5</A>).</div> <bR> <div> We are not to forget our vows, or to redeem them to be seen of men-- unto God alone must they be performed, with a single eye to his acceptance. ... A vow unkept will burn the conscience like a hot iron. Vows of service, of donation, of praise, or whatever they may be, are no trifles; and in the day of grateful praise they should, without fail, be fulfilled to the utmost of our power.  - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v2_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#v2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v2</B></A> - "Thou Who hears prayer" could be the ending of v1 or the beginning of v2. Biblical Hebrew provides punctuation by use of the prefix "and". Since no "and" is given here, I believe it means that "Thou who hears prayer" should be both the ending of v1 and the beginning of v2. Goldingay is the only translation I know that puts the phrase at the end of v1.</div> <div> When we make a vow to God, we do so realizing He is the One who hears prayer.</div> <bR> <div> "As far as You" is literally "until You". It is translated "as far as" when the object is a place (i.e. <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#gen11_31" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Gen 11:31 ..</A>.). Other verses which use this preposition with God as the object are <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#isa45_24" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Isa 45:24</A>, etc.. </div> <div> I think the meaning here is that God is the end of the line destination of all mankind, good or bad. We must all appear before the judgment seat. This realization brings in the next verse.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="e3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#3_" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v3</B></A><B> - </B>literally "matters of iniquities".</div> <div> When David speaks that matters of iniquities are stronger than he is, he speaks for himself, in first person singular. When he speaks that God will forgive sins, he speaks in first person plural.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v4</B></A><A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "> </A>- "whom You choose and draw near" is God's doing.  Drawing near to God takes us and God working together (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#jam4_8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Jam 4:8;Joh 6:44</A>), but it is mainly God's doing (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#joh14_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">John 14:6</A>).</div> <bR> <div> This verse starts in the singular, "him whom You choose and cause to come near". These are individual things. God chooses us individually and draws us near to Him individually. "He stays in Your courts" is also individual. No one can do that for you, and you can't follow a crowd to do it.</div> <div> Then it changes to plural, "we shall be satisfied with goodness from Your house, Your holy temple." Satisfaction from the the Lord's house is corporate.</div> <div> The change from singular to plural also tells us that if one individual is chosen by the Lord and is drawn near to Him, and stays in the Lord's courts, then many will be satisfied with the Lord's goodness in His local church and universal church. C. H. Spurgeon was such a person.</div> <div> The Lord's house signifies our local church. The Lord's holy temple is the fellowship with all Christians with many practices and views.</div> <bR> <div> To just stay in the Lord's courts goes back to silence, praise belonging to God in Zion in v1. Lord, I pray this year that You choose me and draw me nearer to You, and that I stay in Your courts, satisfied with You.</div> <bR> <div> To stay in the Lord's courts and be satisfied with the goodness of His house is the top portion in the universe (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#rev3_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Rev .3:12</A>; Ps 84:10). This is a corporate portion in the oneness of God's people. This goes back to "In Zion" in v1.</div> <bR> <div> To dwell in the courts of the Great King is to be ennobled; to dwell there for ever is to be emparadised: yet such is the portion of every man whom God has chosen and caused to approach unto him, though once his iniquities prevailed against him.  - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> 'If you would come to the church and enjoy the goodness of the house of God, it is a strong proof that you have been chosen and blessed by God. (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#ps36_8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Ps 36:8</A>) ... He has not only chosen us, but also caused us to dwell in His courts. ... The Lord who has chosen us has also caused us to be here. The more we enjoy the fatness and goodness of the house, the stronger our assurance is that we have been chosen and caused by God to be in such a place. We must all bow before Him and say, "Lord, it is Thy doing; it is all of Thee that we are in Thy building today." ' - Witness Lee</div> <div>  <A NAME="e5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v5</B></A> - God answers our prayers from<A HREF="#v2_1" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "> </A><A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#v2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">v2</A>. </div> <div> God answering our prayers should amaze us with awe.</div> <div> When I was unsaved, I prayed for God to help me, and I vowed that I would believe in Him if He did it. Miraculously, He did it, and I was so terrified because now I knew there really was a God, and He had heard what I said, and He knew how sinful I was.</div> <bR> <div> God's memorial is that he hears prayer, and his glory is that he answers it in a manner fitted to inspire awe in the hearts of his people. The saints, in the commencement of the Psalm, offered praise in reverential silence; and now, in the like awe stricken spirit, they receive answers to their prayers. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> Thou Confidence of all the ends of distant lands and sea goes back to "all flesh" in<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#v2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "> v2</A>. This whole psalm tells that the God of Israel is not the God of the Jews only, but of all nations (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#rom3_29" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Rom 3:29</A>). </div> <div> Thou Confidence ... goes with both the end of v5 and the beginning of v6, similar to "Thou Who hearest prayer" in v2.</div> <bR> <div> There is no room for self confidence on land or sea, since God is the only true confidence of men on earth or ocean.  - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="e6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v6</B></A> - The One who by His power established the mountains is the One we are silent before, praise, vow to,  Who hears our prayers, and Whom we draw near to. There is nothing He cannot do.</div> <bR> <div> Philosophers of the 'forget God' school are too much engrossed with their laws of upheaval to think of the Upheaver. Their theories of volcanic action and glacier action, etc., etc., are frequently used as bolts and bars to shut the Lord out of his own world. Our poet is of another mind, and sees God's hand settling Alps and Andes on their bases, and therefore he sings in his praise. Let me for ever be just such an unphilosophical simpleton as David was, for he was nearer akin to Solomon than any of our modern theorists. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="e7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#7_" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v7</B></A><B> - </B>The raging of the seas may be from Satan (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#mat8_24" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Mat 8:24-27</A>) or from God (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#ps107_23" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Ps 107:23-30</A>).</div> <div> For a tumult of the peoples ref <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#act19_23" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Acts 19:23-20:1</A>.</div> <div> The raging waves and tumultous peoples are unrest within and without. </div> <div> Silence, praise (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#1_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">v1</A>), and staying in God's courts <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">(v4</A>) are rest unto our soul (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#mat11_28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Mat 11:28-30</A>).</div> <bR> <div> Glory be unto God who maintains the fabric of social order, and checks the wicked, who would fain overthrow all things. The child of God in seasons of trouble should fly at once to him who stills the seas: nothing is too hard for him. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="e8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#8_" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v8</B></A><B> - </B>Lit. You make the outgoings of morning and evening to shout in awe.</div> <div> The beauty of the daily sunrise and sunset shout the awesomeness of God to the whole world.</div> <bR> <div> This is a great thing that people fear God due to His creation, because that is the beginning of wisdom (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#prov9_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Prov 9:10</A>). <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdM9RSCopHIv=67y5Tscfz2g" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdM9RSCo">Dennis Prager</A><A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdM9RSCopHIv=67y5Tscfz2g" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdM9RSCo"> </A>asks why colleges today teach such nonsense? Because though they learn a lot, they do not fear God. So they have no discernment and can't put information together to make wisdom.</div> <bR> <div> Signs of God's presence are not few, nor confined to any one region. ... These tokens are sometimes terrible phenomena in nature--such as earthquakes, pestilence, tornado, or storm; and when these are seen, even the most barbarous people tremble before God. At other times they are dread works of providence-- such as the overthrow of Sodom, and the destruction of Pharaoh. The rumor of these judgments travels to earth's utmost verge, and impresses all people with a fear and trembling at such a just and holy God. We bless God that we are not afraid but rejoice at his tokens; with solemn awe we are glad when we behold his mighty acts. We fear, but not with slavish fear.  - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v9</B></A> - lit. "and watered it"</div> <div> "Every spring is like a Divine visit." - F. B. Meyer</div> <div> The stream of God is a figure of the Holy Spirit (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#ps46_4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Ps 46:4</A>).  What God does physically for the earth is a figure of what He does spiritually  for the church and mankind.</div> <bR> <div> O Lord, in this manner visit thy church, and my poor, parched, and withering piety. Make thy grace to overflow towards my graces; water me, for no plant of thy garden needs it more.  - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v10_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v10 </B></A><A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">- </A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" >" All this may furnish us with a figure of the operations of the Holy Spirit in beating down high thoughts, filling our lowly desires, softening the soul, and causing every holy thing to increase and spread. " - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Furrows signify people who are suffering. Clods are people who are rough and/or hard. Lord do this in the church this year. Fill those who are suffering, smooth those who are rough, soften hard hearts, and grow and bear fruit in them.</div> <bR> <div> This is my other favorite verse in this psalm, besides <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#1_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">v1</A>. </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#11" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v11</B></A> - "Your paths" are the ways the Lord walked on earth (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#ps17_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Ps 17:5; 23:3; etc</A>). </div> <div> God's paths culminate in the golden street of the New Jerusalem with the river of water of life flowing and the tree of life growing (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#rev21_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Rev 21:21; 22:1-2</A>).</div> <div>  <A NAME="e12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#12_" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v12</B></A><A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#12_" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "> </A>- <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" >"Not alone where man is found do the showers descend, but away in the lone places, where only wild animals have their haunt, there the bountiful Lord makes the refreshing rain to drop. Ten thousand oases smile while the Lord of mercy passes by. The birds of the air, the wild goats, and the fleet stags rejoice as they drink from the pools, new filled from heaven. The most lonely and solitary souls God will visit in love. And the little hills rejoice on every side." - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <bR> <div> A pasture in the wilderness would be an obscure church that no one has heard of. They have a little strength, but keep the Lord's word and don't deny His name (<A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#rev3_8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">Rev 3:8</A>).</div> <div> A pasture contains many little hills. If a pasture is a local church, then the little hills are small groups within the church. </div> <div>  <A NAME="e13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_m.htm#13" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>v13</B></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" > "They also sing. The voice of nature is articulate to God; it is not only a shout, but a song. Well ordered are the sounds of animate creation as they combine with the equally well tuned ripple of the waters, and sighings of the wind. Nature has no discords. Her airs are melodious, her chorus is full of harmony. All, all is for the Lord; the world is a hymn to the Eternal, blessed is he who, hearing, joins in it, and makes one singer in the mighty chorus. " - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <bR> <div> - Steve Miller </div> <div> copyright 1/6/2019 voiceInWilderness.info</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Psalm 65</B> for the overcomer, <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#head" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">a psalm through David, a Song</A></div> <bR> <div> Tune <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-UKKVJp24" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-UKKVJ">America the Beautiful</A> 8.6.8.6.D</div> <div> Composer: <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._Ward" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._">Samuel A. Ward </A>(1848-1903)</div> <bR> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-954/America_the_Beautiful.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <div> audio file from <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-UKKVJp24" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-UKKVJ">YouTube</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="1_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >1</FONT> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">1</A>  Unto Thee, silence, praise <I>belong</I>,</div> <div> O God, in Zion, <I>there,</I></div> <div> <I> <A NAME="v2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I>and to Thee shall men pay a vow,</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#v2_1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">2</A> O Thou Who hearest prayer.</div> <bR> <div>    <A NAME="3_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>As far as You shall all flesh come.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">3</A> Sins are stronger than me.</div> <div> <I>  </I>  Our transgressions, You will cover,</div> <div>        <I>and our iniquity</I>.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >2</FONT> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#v4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">4</A> Him whom You choose and drawest near,</div> <div> in Your courts he is blessed.</div> <div> He abides there, and we shall be</div> <div> satisfied with goodness</div> <div>  <A NAME="5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> of Your house, Your holy temple.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">5</A><A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "> </A> By acts <I>that are</I> fearsome</div> <div> in righteousness, You answer us, </div> <div> God of our salvation,</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 3 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Thou Confidence of all the ends</FONT></div> <div> of distant land and sea,</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">6</A> Who by His pow'r set the mountains,</div> <div> girded with strength <I>mighty,</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="7_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">7</A> Who stills the raging of the seas,</div> <div> the raging of their waves,</div> <div> and the tumult of the peoples,</div> <div> <I>O Thou, mighty to save.</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="8_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >4 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">8</A>  And they that dwell in far off parts,</div> <div> at Thy signs do fear <I>Thee</I>.</div> <div> You cause the sunrise and sunset</div> <div> to shout in awe <I>of Thee</I>.</div> <div>  <A NAME="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#v9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">9</A> You visited earth, watered it.</div> <div> You greatly enrich it.</div> <div> The stream of God's full of water.</div> <div> Their grain You prepare it,</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >5 </FONT>for You prepare the earth<I> </I>thusly:</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#v10_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">10</A> You fill up its furrows,</div> <div> You smooth its clods, soften with rains,</div> <div> You bless what thereof grows.</div> <div>  <A NAME="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#v11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">11</A> You crown the year of Your goodness,</div> <div>  <A NAME="12_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>and Your paths flow fatness.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e12" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">12</A> Pastures of the wilderness flow,</div> <div> and hills put on gladness.</div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#777777" FACE="Kids board game" >6 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_65_l.htm#e13" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year ">13</A> The meadows are covered with flocks</div> <div> and with grain the valleys.</div> <div> They shout for joy, they even sing</div> <div> <I>for good that is of Thee.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Unto Thee silence, praise belong,</I></div> <div> <I>O God, in Zion there,</I></div> <div> <I>and to Thee shall men pay a vow,</I></div> <div> <I>O Thou that hearest prayer.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="ps47_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div> <A HREF="#1_1" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Psalm 47:9</B></A> The willing-hearted of the peoples have gathered together, with the people of the God of Abraham. For <B>unto God belong </B>the shields of the earth: he is greatly exalted.</div> <div> 62:11 Once hath God spoken, twice have I heard this, that strength <B>belongeth unto God</B>.</div> <div> 12 And <B>unto thee</B>, O Lord, <B>belongeth </B>loving-kindness; for *thou* renderest to every man according to his work.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1ki19_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#1_1" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>1 Kings 19:12</B></A> And after the earthquake, a fire: Jehovah was not in the fire. </div> <div> And after the fire, a small voice, silence.</div> <div> 13 And it came to pass, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps87_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#1_1" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Psalm 87:2</B></A> The Lord loveth the gates of Zion </div> <div> more than all the dwellings of Jacob.</div> <div>  <A NAME="eccl5_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#1_1" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Ecclesiastes 5:1</B></A> Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.</div> <div>  2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.</div> <div>  3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.</div> <div>  4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.</div> <div>  5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.</div> <div>  6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?</div> <div>  7 For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.</div> <div>  <A NAME="act18_18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#1_1" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Acts 18:18</B></A> And Paul, having yet stayed there many days, took leave of the brethren and sailed thence to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a <B>vow</B>;</div> <div> 21:23 This do therefore that we say to thee: We have four men who have a <B>vow </B>on them;</div> <div> James 5:15 and the <B>vow </B>of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he be one who has committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps132_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#1_1" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Psalm 132:1</B></A> A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:</div> <div>  2 How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;</div> <div>  3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;</div> <div>  4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,</div> <div>  5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.</div> <div>  <A NAME="gen11_31"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#v2" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Genesis 11:31 </B></A>And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came <B>as far as </B>Haran, and dwelt there.</div> <div> 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south <B>as far as </B>Bethel; <B>as far as</B> the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai;</div> <div> 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan; and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched tents <B>as far as</B> Sodom.</div> <div> <I>...</I></div> <div> <I> <A NAME="isa45_24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> <A HREF="#v2" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Isaiah 45:24 </B></A>Only in Jehovah, shall one say, have I righteousness and strength. <B>As far as</B> <B>Him </B>shall men come; and all that are incensed against Him shall be ashamed.</div> <div> Joel 2:12 Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn <B>as far as</B> <B>Me </B>with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;</div> <div> Amos 4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet ye have not returned <B>as far as Me</B>, saith Jehovah.</div> <div>  7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece of land was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.</div> <div>  8 And two, three, cities wandered unto one city, to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned <B>as far as </B><B>Me</B>, saith Jehovah.</div> <div>  9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew; the palmer-worm hath devoured the multitude of your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig-trees and your olive-trees: yet have ye not returned <B>as far as Me</B>, saith Jehovah.</div> <div>  10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, taking away captive your horses; and I made the stench of your camps to come up, even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned <B>as far as Me</B>, saith Jehovah.</div> <div>  11 I have overthrown among you, like God's overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet have ye not returned <B>as far as Me</B>, saith Jehovah.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh14_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>John 14:6 </B></A>Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jam4_8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>James 4:8</B></A> Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.</div> <div> John 6:44 No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.</div> <div> 12:32 and I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all to me.</div> <div>  <A NAME="rev3_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Revelation 3:12 </B></A>He that overcomes, him will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more at all out; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven, from my God, and my new name.</div> <div> Psalm 84: 10 for a day within Your courts is</div> <div>      better than a thousand.</div> <div>      I would rather in my God's house</div> <div>      upon the threshold stand</div> <div>      then dwell in tents of wickedness</div> <div>  <A NAME="rom3_29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#5" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Romans 3:29</B></A> Is God the God of Jews only? is he not of the nations also? Yea, of nations also:</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat8_24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#7_" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Matthew 8:24 </B></A>And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.</div> <div>  25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.</div> <div>  26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.</div> <div>  27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!</div> <div> Mark 4:24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.</div> <div>  25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.</div> <div>  26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.</div> <div>  27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!</div> <div> Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;</div> <div>  26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.</div> <div> Jude 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.</div> <div> Job 38:8 And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?</div> <div>  9 When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;</div> <div>  10 When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,</div> <div>  11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?</div> <div> Psalm 89:9 *Thou* rulest the pride of the sea: when its waves arise, *thou* stillest them.</div> <div>  10 Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.</div> <div> Jeremiah 5:22 Will ye not fear me? saith Jehovah. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have set the sand a bound for the sea by a perpetual decree, and it shall not pass it? and its waves toss themselves, but they do not prevail; and they roar, yet can they not pass over it?</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps107_23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#7_" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Psalm 107:23</B></A> They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,</div> <div>  24 These see the works of Jehovah, and his wonders in the deep.</div> <div>  25 For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:</div> <div>  26 They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;</div> <div>  27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:</div> <div>  28 Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses;</div> <div>  29 He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:</div> <div>  30 And they rejoice because they are quiet; and he bringeth them unto their desired haven.</div> <div> Isaiah 51:15 And I am Jehovah thy God, who raiseth the sea, so that its waves roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.</div> <div> Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who stirreth up the sea so that the waves thereof roar, -- Jehovah of hosts is his name:</div> <div> Ezekiel 26:3 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.</div> <div>  <A NAME="act19_23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#7_" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Acts 19:23 </B></A>And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.</div> <div>  24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;</div> <div>  25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.</div> <div>  26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:</div> <div>  27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.</div> <div>  28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.</div> <div>  29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.</div> <div>  30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.</div> <div>  31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.</div> <div>  32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.</div> <div>  33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense unto the people.</div> <div>  34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.</div> <div>  35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?</div> <div>  36 Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.</div> <div>  37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.</div> <div>  38 Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.</div> <div>  39 But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.</div> <div>  40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.</div> <div>  41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.</div> <div> 20:1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.</div> <div>  <A NAME="prov9_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#8_" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Proverbs 9:10</B></A> The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps46_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#9" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Psalm 46:4</B></A> There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.</div> <div>  <A NAME="mat11_28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#7_" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Matthew 11:28 </B></A>Are you having a real struggle? Come to me!</div> <div> Are you carrying a big load on your back? Come to me - I'll give you a rest!</div> <div> 29 Pick up my yoke and put it on; take lessons from me!</div> <div> My heart is gentle, not arrogant.</div> <div> You'll find the rest you deeply need.</div> <div> 30 My yoke is easy to wear; my load is easy to bear. - N. T. Wright's translation</div> <div>  <A NAME="rev3_8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#12_" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Revelation 3:8 </B></A>I know your works. Look! I have given you an open door, right in front of you, and nobody can shut it, since you have a little power; you have kept my word, and you haven't denied my name. - N. T. Wright's translation</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps17_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#3300FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="#11" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Psalm 17:</B></A></FONT><A HREF="#11" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><I><B>5</B></I></A><A HREF="#11" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><I><B> </B></I></A>Uphold my goings that my feet don't slip</div> <div> from <B>Your pathwa</B><B>y</B><B>s</B> <I>that You Yourself went.</I></div> <div> <B>23:3</B> He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in <B>paths of righteousness</B> for his name's sake.</div> <div> <B>Proverbs 2:9</B> Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: <B>every good path.</B></div> <div> <B>4:11 </B>I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in <B>paths of uprightness</B>.</div> <div> <B>26</B> Ponder the <B>path of thy feet</B>, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.</div> <div> <B>5:21</B> For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth <B>all his paths</B>.</div> <div>  <A NAME="rev21_21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#11" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Revelation 21:21</B></A> And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and <B>the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.</B></div> <div> 22:1 And he shewed me a <B>pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.</B></div> <div>  2 <B>In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life</B>, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps36_8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#4" TITLE="Psalm 65 Overcomer You Crown the Year "><B>Psalm 36:8</B></A> They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.</div> <bR> <div> - Steve Miller </div> <div> copyright 1/6/2019 voiceInWilderness.info</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>