Psalms 68:1
Let God arise; let his enemies be scattered; 1 let those also who hate him flee before him. 1
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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 must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God. I punish the ancestors' wickedness by bringing punishment on the descendants, to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
Deuteronomy 7:10but repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them; he will not be lenient on whoever hates him; he will repay him to his face.
Psalms 7:6Arise, Yahweh, in your anger; 1 stand up against the rage of my enemies; 1 wake up for my sake and carry out the righteous decrees that you have commanded for them. 1
Psalms 44:26Rise up for our help 1 and redeem us for the sake of your covenant faithfulness.
Psalms 68:14The Almighty scattered kings there, 1 it was as when it snowed on Mount Zalmon. 1
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awakened as one from sleep, 1 like a warrior who shouts because of wine. 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 →