Psalms 68:7
\68:6\Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
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In Context
6\68:5\A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
8\68:7\O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.)
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:34Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?
Judges 5:4Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.
Psalms 114:1When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;
Isaiah 61:1The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
Habakkuk 3:12You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 68:2-7
Prayer for the Dispersion of God's Enemies. 1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. 4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him. 5 A father of the fatherless, and a… Read the whole commentary →