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Psalm 65

1. You O God are to be praised in Jerusalem:
   to you shall vows be performed.
2. You give heed to prayer:
   to you all mortals shall come to confess their sins.
3. The burden of our sins is too great for us:
   but you will purge them away.
4. Blessed are the people you choose,
   and bring to dwell in your courts:
   we shall be filled with the blessings
   of your house your holy temple.
5. With awesome deeds you answer our prayers for deliverance,
   O God our saviour:
   you that are the hope of all the ends of the earth,
   and of the far-off seas.
6. By your strength you made fast the mountains:
   and gird yourself round with power.
7. You still the raging of the seas,
   and the roar of the waves:
   and the tumult of the peoples.
8. The dwellers at the ends of the earth
   are awed by your wonders:
   you make the lands of sunrise and sunset
   resound with shouts of joy.
9. You visit the earth and water it:
   you make it very fruitful.
10. The waters of heaven brim over their channel:
    providing us with grain,
    for so you have prepared the land.
11. drenching its furrows, levelling its ridges:
    softening it with showers and blessing its growth.
12. You crown the year with your goodness:
    and your paths overflow with plenty.
13. The pastures of the wilderness abound with grass:
    and the hills are girded with joy.
14. The fields are clothed with sheep:
    the valleys are decked with wheat,
    so that they shout for joy and sing.