02_VanWieringen_179_197 15/07/14 12:15 Pagina 187 PSALM 65 187 This universal position of “all flesh”, into which the text-internal reader is invited, is supported by the word #ra used in verse 10. The addressed “you” has visited the #ra. This Hebrew word, however, can indicate both the “land”, namely the Land Israel, and the “earth”, namely all lands. From the perspective of the “I”-character, the Land is in focus here: the movement of zooming out and zooming in around God’s location, namely Zion, evokes the Promised Land Israel. How- ever, from the perspective of the text-internal reader’s access, all flesh is involved. By this, the Promised Land of the “I”-character is ex- panded to include the entire earth, and in doing so the mechanism of non-appropriation is expanded to include the entire world. The second possible access to the text for the text-internal reader is the use of the first person plural in Psalm 65. The first person plural starts with the forgiveness of “our transgressions” in verse 4 and, subsequently, takes shape in the wish “let us satisfy ourselves” concerning God’s sanctuary in verse 5 and in the indication of God as “God of our deliverance” in verse 6. The text-internal reader may consider himself to be a part of the “we”, i.e. the community which arises in the development of the “I”-character. This implies that the text-internal reader also has access to the text after the “I”-verse (= verse 4). The text-internal reader is present in the text after the “I”-character has taken up his position. Because of that, the “I”-character is ahead of the text-internal reader, which means that the “I”-character already knows about the non-appropriation. On the basis of both accesses to the text, the text-internal reader will never expect “our wheat” instead of ~ngd “their wheat” in verse 10d. This is an enormous difference compared to the easy-going modern translations 17 and exegeses found on the Internet 18, in which a direct link is made between praying Psalm 65 and the abun- dant harvest of wheat. 17 For example, the so-called Dutch Bronkhorst-translation of 1969, which was the translation used in the first post-conciliar breviary in the Netherlands: “You have cared and irrigated our land / and made it rich and fertile // the rainwaters stream down over the fields: / so you make them ready for the har- vest” (my translation). See also the adopted translation of the NKJV: “you visit and care for the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; your river is full of water; you provide our grain, for so you have prepared it”. 18 For example, among many other websites: www.hurtingchristian.org, which interprets the text as “it is God that prepares abundance for us”.