Psalms 68:1
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
Updated King James Version
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 yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Deuteronomy 7:10And repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hates him, he will repay him to his face.
Psalms 7:6Arise, O LORD, in yours anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.
Psalms 44:26Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.
Psalms 68:14When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
Psalms 78:65Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that 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 →