Bible Strands
Psalms 65:8
Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks to God, marking the transition between His act of calming the roaring seas and nations and His subsequent provision of water and grain for the earth.
The words — תַּרְנִֽין (tar.Nin) translates literally as "you make shout for joy," directly attributing the dawn and sunset's response to divine action. קְ֭צָוֹת (Ke.tza.vot) means "the ends," identifying the distant inhabitants who encounter God's signs.
The thread — The motif of celestial bodies responding to God appears in Psalms 148:3, where the sun and moon are commanded to praise Him, and in Psalms 136:8, which records the sun's appointment to rule the day. The reach of God's wonders to remote regions parallels the universal scope of His sustaining work.
Why it lands — The text states that distant inhabitants fear God's wonders and that He causes the dawn and sunset to shout for joy, demanding acknowledgment of His sovereign control over both geography and natural cycles. The reader must recognize that divine action operates beyond local experience to encompass the entire earth and its daily rhythms.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
Cross-references
- Psalms 148:3 Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
- Psalms 104:20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
- Psalms 136:8 the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 74:16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- Deuteronomy 4:19 When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
- Psalms 48:5 They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.
- Psalms 126:2 Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.
- Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- Exodus 15:14 The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.