George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 68:9
Mother. This might be true with respect to some apostate Jews. But it was more fully accomplished in Christ, who was betrayed by Judas, &c. (Calmet) --- His own received him not, John i. (Berthier)
Mother. This might be true with respect to some apostate Jews. But it was more fully accomplished in Christ, who was betrayed by Judas, &c. (Calmet) --- His own received him not, John i. (Berthier)
Verse Psalms 68:9. _DIDST SEND A PLENTIFUL RAIN_] גשם נדבות _geshem nedaboth_, a _shower of liberality_. I believe this to refer to the _manna_ by which God refreshed and preserved alive the weary and...
THOU, O GOD, DIDST SEND A PLENTIFUL RAIN - Margin, shake out. Prof. Alexander, “a rain of free gifts.” The Septuagint and the Vulgate render it, “a voluntary or willing rain.” The Syriac, “the rain of...
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...
The Exodus from Egypt and the Entry into Canaan....
_Thou, O God, didst send_&c. Or, dost send, a general truth, illustrated by God's dealings with Israel. The verse is explained by, many to refer to the manna and the quails which God -rained down" upo...
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....
THOU, O GOD, DIDST SEND A PLENTIFUL RAIN— What this _shower_ was, is not by all agreed. Sometimes the Israelites were supplied with wells, and at other times God gave them miraculously water from rock...
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...
68:9 rain (g-8) Or 'a rain of free gifts.'...
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...
A PLENTIFUL RAIN] here a figure for all the blessings of the sojourn in the wilderness. Omit whereby with RV....
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...
THOU, O GOD... — The text of these two verses literally runs, _A rain of gifts thou shakest out, O God, on thine inheritance, and when exhausted didst refresh it. Thy living creatures dwell therein; t...
_[Psalms 68:10]_ גֶּ֣שֶׁם נְ֭דָבֹות תָּנִ֣יף אֱלֹהִ֑ים נַחֲלָתְךָ֥
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...
What is this plentiful rain, which Jehovah sent upon his inheritance, but Christ himself? He, it was said, should come down like rain upon the mown grass; Psalms 72:6. And when Jesus comes to a church...
9._Thou, O God! shalt make a liberal rain to fall _(19) _upon thine inheritance _Mention is made here of the continued course of favor which had been extended to the people from the time when they fir...
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...
THOU, O GOD, DIDST SEND A PLENTIFUL RAIN,.... Not of water literally taken, as when the Israelites passed through the sea, Psalms 77:17; or when the thunderings and lightnings were on Mount Sinai, at...
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. Ver. 9. _Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain_] Heb. Thou didst speak out a rain of libe...
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...
_Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain_, &c. Hebrew, נדבות, גשׁם, _geshem nedaboth_, a rain of spontaneousness, or liberality. The Seventy render it, βροχην εκουσιον, _a spontaneous, voluntary_, or...
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, said of the rich bestowal of spiritual gifts as experienced by Israel, the covenant nation, WHEREBY THOU DIDST CONFIRM THINE INHERITANCE WHEN IT WAS WEARY, re...
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...
SEND: _ Heb._ shake out CONFIRM: _ Heb._ confirm it...
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...
SEND A PLENTIFUL RAIN; either, 1. In the wilderness; where they oft wanted water, and were by God's extraordinary care supplied with it. Or rather, 2. In the land of Canaan, which he calls God's inhe...
Psalms 68:9 God H430 sent H5130 (H8686) plentiful H5071 rain H1653 confirmed H3559 (H8790) inheritance H5159 weary...
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...
_Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby Thou didst confirm Thine inheritance when it was weary._ REFRESHING SHOWERS The language is figurative. There is no mention of any rain in Israel’s...
_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 11:10; Deuteronomy 11:14; Ezekiel 34:26; Psalms 65:9;...
Weary — Dry and thirsty, and parched with excessive heat, and ready to faint for want of rain, Psalms 63:1....