George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 68:8
Reproach. Because I would not adore idols. Christ undertook to expiate our offences, and to satisfy the justice of his Father, Romans xv. 3. (Calmet)
Reproach. Because I would not adore idols. Christ undertook to expiate our offences, and to satisfy the justice of his Father, Romans xv. 3. (Calmet)
THE EARTH SHOOK - See Exodus 19:16. THE HEAVENS ALSO DROPPED AT THE PRESENCE OF GOD - That is, dropped down rain and food. The idea is that the very heavens seemed to be shaken or convulsed, so that r...
Psalms 68 The Great Redemption Accomplished _ 1. The introduction (Psalms 68:1)_ 2. The proclamation of His Name and of ‘His acts (Psalms 68:4) 3. A historic review ...
LXVIII. A SONG OF TRIUMPH. The most difficult of all the Pss. In some places the text is so corrupt that it defies any attempt at emendation, and the VSS give little, if any, help. The historical allu...
DROPPED: i.e. dropped [moisture]....
These verses are borrowed, with some omissions and alterations, from the Song of Deborah (Judges 5:4-5): "Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou didst march out of the field of Edom...
_shook_ R.V. trembled. _dropped_ Torrents of rain accompanied the thunders and lightnings. Cp. Psalms 77:17 f. _at the presence of God_ Cp. Psalms 68:1. even _Sinai itself_was moved] R.V., Even yon...
After this general introduction the Psalmist proceeds to review the past history of Israel in proof of God's victorious power and of His gracious love towards His people....
The Exodus from Egypt and the Entry into Canaan....
THE EARTH SHOOK, &C.— When the people arrived at Sinai, and God descended on the mountain, _the earth trembled at his presence; the heavens also dropped, i.e._ dissolved into showers, as the consequen...
PSALMS 68 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Glimpses of Jehovah's Visible Reign over Israel and the Nations. ANALYSIS (See Headlines insetted in text.) (Lm.) By DavidPsalm Song. (DIVISION ITHE KING: HIS PROWESS...
_O GOD, WHEN THOU WENTEST FORTH BEFORE THY PEOPLE, WHEN THOU DIDST MARCH THROUGH THE WILDERNESS; SELAH:_ -God's doings for His people in the wilderness; His giving them the law at Sinai; His sustaini...
68:8 Israel. (f-23) See Judges 5:3 ,Judges 5:5 ....
THE HEAVENS ALSO DROPPED] in the rain which accompanied the thunderstorms of Sinai: see Psalms 77:17....
This is one of the grandest of the Pss., but its origin and date are involved in much obscurity. It contains expressions borrowed from the Blessing of Moses (Deuteronomy 33) and the Song of Deborah (J...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
_[Psalms 68:9]_ אֶ֤רֶץ רָעָ֨שָׁה ׀ אַף ־שָׁמַ֣יִם נָטְפוּ֮...
Psalms 68:1 THIS superb hymn is unsurpassed, if not unequalled, in grandeur, lyric fire, and sustained rush of triumphant praise. It celebrates a victory; but it is the victory of the God who enters a...
THE LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE Psalms 68:1 This is one of the grandest odes in literature. It was probably composed when the Ark was brought in triumph from the house of Obed-edom to the newly acquired hil...
This psalm sings the praise of the God of deliverances. It opens with a song of pure praise (verses Psa 68:1-6). This is then justified by a review of God's past dealings with His people (verses Psa 6...
Here is a magnificent description, though in few words, of that great event which the church in all ages desires to keep in remembrance, namely, God's presence and movement in a pillar of cloud by day...
Psalms 68 follows on these psalms, being the celebration of the introduction of Israel into the position spoken of in them. Still it has a complete and individual character of its own. It begins with...
THE EARTH SHOOK,.... Not only about Sinai, but in other places; see Psalms 114:1. It may also design the dread and trembling of the inhabitants of the earth, when they heard of the wonderful things Go...
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: [even] Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God, the God of Israel. Ver. 8. _The earth shook, the heavens also dropped_] _Velu...
Psa. 68:8, 9. "The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God, even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. Thou, O Lord, didst send a plentiful rain, where...
_O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people_ In the cloudy pillar, as their captain, leading them out of Egypt; _the earth shook _ Or, _trembled_, that is, either the inhabitants of those parts...
the earth shook, in a mighty earthquake, THE HEAVENS ALSO DROPPED AT THE PRESENCE OF GOD, their heavy storm-clouds coming down to rest upon the mountain; EVEN SINAI ITSELF WAS MOVED AT THE PRESENCE OF...
OF THE MESSIAH'S EXALTATION. To the chief musician, a psalm or song of David, the event which was the immediate cause for writing this powerful hymn, according to most commentators. being the placing...
7-14 Fresh mercies should put us in mind of former mercies. If God bring his people into a wilderness, he will be sure to go before them in it, and to bring them out of it. He provided for them, both...
THE EARTH; either, 1. Metonymically, the inhabitants of those parts of the earth, by comparing EXODUS 15:14. Or, 2. Properly, by comparing PSALMS 114:5. There was a great earthquake, as a token of Go...
Psalms 68:8 earth H776 shook H7493 (H8804) heavens H8064 dropped H5197 (H8804) presence H6440 God H430 Sinai...
This was a Psalm sung, at the removing of the ark, when it was taken up to its resting-place on Mount Zion. All the tribes were gathered together, and, in full pomp, they marched along, bearing the sa...
CONTENTS: Prayer against enemies and for God's people. All called upon to praise God for His greatness and goodness. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The glory of Zion's King is that He is a Savi...
This psalm is the _Carmen seculare_ of the Hebrews, and far surpasses the _Te Deum_ of the christians. It has justly been eulogized in the whole succession of theological composition,. The song bursts...
_O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness._ THE PROGRESS OF HUMANITY I. It commences with the Divinely terrible (Psalms 68:7). As a rule, if not...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 68:1. This is a celebration of God’s continued care and protection. It remembers how God led his people through the wilderness into their inheritance. The celebration does n...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 68:7 These verses recall the way God led his people THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, from SINAI to his INHERITANCE (Canaan, now the land of Israel). There God’s...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Psalm or Song of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 48. The Superscription does not mention the occasion...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of triumphant praise and jubilation, the crown and gem of the Second Book. Professor Cheyne calls it "a patriotic and religious ode of wondrous range and compass, and in t...
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the pre...
Deuteronomy 5:23; Exodus 19:16; Exodus 19:18; Habakkuk 3:13;...
Dropped — Poured down great showers, which accompanied those mighty thunders....