What Does Psalm 65:8 Mean in the King James?
They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Across even the farthest reaches, signs of divine power meet awe, while the daily emergence of morning and evening rings out in joy.
THE MEANING
Even at the earth’s farthest inhabited edges, your signs awaken awe. You make morning and evening ring out in joy; the day’s boundaries carry a response that reaches across the world.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that divine signs are confined to a central place: even the farthest dwellers respond to them.
THE ROOT
מוֹצָאֵי
motsa’ei
GROWS FROM
יָצָא
y-ts-ʾ
To go out, come forth, or emerge.
The word for “outgoings” grows from יָצָא, “to go out.” Morning and evening appear as the day’s recurring emergences, not merely points on a clock.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or emerge.
יָצָא
This is the root action behind the verse’s image of morning and evening going forth.
motsa: A going out, outlet, or source.
מוֹצָא
This noun form makes the day’s appearing feel like an emergence into the world.
תַּרְנִין
tar’nin
GROWS FROM
רָנַן
r-n-n
To ring out, shout, or sing aloud.
“rejoice” in this verse is tar’nin. The verb means more than an inward feeling: it pictures a voiced, ringing response. God makes the outgoings themselves sound with joy.
ALSO GROWS
ranan: To sing or shout aloud.
רָנַן
It shows the audible force held inside “rejoice” in this verse.
rinnah: A ringing cry or song of joy.
רִנָּה
This noun from the same root echoes the verse’s picture of daybreak and evening as a song.
וַיִּירְאוּ
wayyir’u
GROWS FROM
יָרֵא
y-r-ʾ
To fear or stand in awe.
“afraid” in this verse is wayyir’u. Here the awe rises in response to “thy tokens.” The word can hold trembling and reverence together, and the verse places that response even at the world’s farthest edges.
ALSO GROWS
yare: To fear or stand in awe.
יָרֵא
It is the verb behind the dwellers’ response to the signs.
yir’ah: Awe or fear.
יִרְאָה
This related noun holds the reverent weight of the response in the verse.
THE PATTERN
The created order carries signs of divine presence across the full reach of human life.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.THE THREAD
His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.Both verses use the root יָצָא (yatsa), “to go out”: Psalm 65 speaks of the morning and evening “outgoings,” and Psalm 19 of the sun’s “going forth.” Psalm 19 traces that emergence from heaven’s end to its farthest reach, opening the full span of the rejoicing in Psalm 65.
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