Psalms 68:1
Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
World English Bible
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 yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Deuteronomy 7:10and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
Psalms 7:6Arise, LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
Psalms 44:26Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.
Psalms 68:14When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
Psalms 78:65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of 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 →