18 If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn't have listened.
We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, When God takes away his life? Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Yahweh is far from the wicked, But he hears the prayer of the righteous.
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Commentary on Psalms 66 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 66
This is a thanksgiving-psalm, and it is of such a general use and application that we need not suppose it penned upon any particular occasion. All people are here called upon to praise God,
If we have learned in every thing to give thanks for ancient and modern mercies, public and personal mercies, we shall know how to sing this psalm with grace and understanding.
To the chief musician. A song or psalm.
Psa 66:1-7
Psa 66:8-12
In these verses the psalmist calls upon God's people in a special manner to praise him. Let all lands do it, but Israel's land particularly. Bless our God; bless him as ours, a God in covenant with us, and that takes care of us as his own. Let them make the voice of his praise to be heard (v. 8); for from whom should it be heard but from those who are his peculiar favourites and select attendants? Two things we have reason to bless God for:-
Psa 66:13-20
The psalmist, having before stirred up all people, and all God's people in particular, to bless the Lord, here stirs up himself and engages himself to do it.