Psalms 68:1
Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
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 20:5You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your 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 7:6Arise, O Lord, in your wrath; be exalted + 7:6 Heb. 'because of my enemies.' in the utmost boundaries of my enemies: awake, O Lord my God, according to the decree which you did command. 1
Psalms 68:14Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters. 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 →