The song of silence

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Happy Pentecost to all Orthodox Christians and especially in Athens, where our weekly PsalmChallenge is centered.

Psalm 65

1. For the leader. A psalm. Of David. A song.

2. To You, silence is praise, God, in Zion; a vow to You will be paid.

3. It is He Who hears prayer; unto You all flesh shall come.

4. Reports of sins overpowered me; our iniquities You will expiate.

5. Happy is he whom You choose to bring near and to dwell in Your courts; we will be sated with the bounty of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

6. With awesome deeds of righteousness answer us, O God of our deliverance, O hope of the distant ends of the earth and sea,

7. Who by His strength has formed the mountains, Who is encompassed in power,

8. Who stills the roaring seas, their roaring waves, and the tumult of peoples.

9. Those who dwell at the ends of the world are awed by Your signs; You cause the portals of morning and evening to exult.

10. You watch over the earth and water it; You enrich it greatly, with a god(-like) stream full of water;
You form grain for men; truly, indeed, You do form it.

11. Engorge its troughs, its ridges level; with showers You will soften it, its growth You will bless.

12. You have crowned the year with Your bounty; abundance will drip in Your paths;

13. the wilderness grasslands will drip; with joy the hills will be girded.

14. The pastures will clothe themselves with flocks; the valleys will drape themselves in grain; they will raise a shout; they will even sing.
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Translation by Rabbi Benjamin Segal. See also his notes and the Hebrew.
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Photos:
1. The Jordan River at Kasr al Yahud
2. Neighbor goats in our valley in the hills
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