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Psalms 68:1

To the Overseer. — A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God — scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.

Young's Literal Translation

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 the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third [generation], and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

Deuteronomy 7:10and repaying to those hating Him, unto their face, to destroy them; He delayeth not to him who is hating Him — unto his face, He repayeth to him —

Psalms 7:6Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:

Psalms 44:26Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.

Psalms 68:14When the Mighty spreadeth kings in it, It doth snow in Salmon.

Psalms 78:65And the Lord waketh as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from 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 →

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