For the music director; a psalm of David, a song.
65:1 Praise awaits you, 2 O God, in Zion.
Vows made to you are fulfilled.
66:13 I will enter 3 your temple with burnt sacrifices;
I will fulfill the vows I made to you,
66:14 which my lips uttered
and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.
66:15 I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices,
along with the smell of sacrificial rams.
I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah)
66:16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! 4
I will declare what he has done for me.
1 sn Psalm 65. The psalmist praises God because he forgives sin and blesses his people with an abundant harvest.
2 tn Heb “for you, silence, praise.” Many prefer to emend the noun דֻּמִיָּה (dumiyyah, “silence”) to a participle דּוֹמִיָּה (domiyyah), from the root דָּמָה (damah, “be silent”), understood here in the sense of “wait.”
3 sn Here the psalmist switches to the singular; he speaks as the representative of the nation.
5 tn Heb “all of the fearers of God.”