“O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.”
The address to God as the one to whom all flesh comes articulates that all creation is drawn toward God and that every living being is related to the divine. The reference to flesh coming to God suggests that the entire physical world participates in relationship to the divine. The focus on prayer and petition establishes that worship begins with the expression of need and dependence. This verse situates individual and communal prayer within the comprehensive relationship of all creation to God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 65:2
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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