Psalms 68:1
God arises, his enemies scatter: they who hate him flee before him.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
In Context
2As smoke before wind is driven, as wax melts before fire, so before God vanish the wicked.
Cross References
Psalms 7:6Arise, Lord, in anger, against my foes rise in fury. Awake for my help: let justice be done.
Psalms 44:26Arise, come to our help: for your love’s sake, ransom us.
Psalms 68:14set with stones, like snow upon Zalmon.”
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior flushed 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 →