Psalms 68:1
For the end, a Psalm of David, for alternate strains. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
In Context
2Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. 1
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,
Deuteronomy 7:10and who recompenses them that hate him to their face, to destroy them utterly; and will not be slack with them that hate him: he will recompense them to their face.
Psalms 7:6Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; 1 And let him trample my life on the ground, 1 And lay my glory in the dust. Pause. 1
Psalms 68:14But I will cry to thee, O Lord, in my prayer; 1 O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, 1 In the truth of thy salvation. 1
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 →