“Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.”
The concluding vision that God crowns the year with divine goodness and the fields overflow with abundance articulates the ultimate goal of divine care: the creation's full flourishing and fruitfulness. The crowning with goodness suggests that the year is consummated in divine blessing. The overflowing of fields indicates abundance exceeding human need. This verse closes the psalm with the vision of creation at peace and fully blessed by divine care.
Church Fathers on Psalms 65:11
1. The voice of holy prophecy must be confessed in the very title of this Psalm. It is inscribed, “Unto the end, a Psalm of David, a song of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, on account of the people of transmigration when they were beginning to go forth.” How it fared with our fathers in the time of the transmigration to Babylon, is not known to all, but only to those that diligently study the Holy Scriptures, either by hearing or by reading. For the captive people Israel from the city…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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