Psalms 68:1
Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Deuteronomy 7:10And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.
Psalms 7:6Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust.
Psalms 44:26Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake.
Psalms 68:14If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.
Psalms 78:65And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 68:1
This is a most excellent psalm, but in many places the genuine sense is not easy to come at; for in this, as in some other scriptures, there are things dark and hard to be understood. It does not appear when, or upon what occasion, David penned this psalm; but probably it was when, God having given him rest from all his enemies round about, he brought the ark (which was both the token of God's presence and a type of Christ's mediation) from the house of Obed-edom to the tent he had pitched for it in Zion; for the… Read the whole commentary →