Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 68:3
For God's gracious appearance on their behalf, and for his settled presence with them.
For God's gracious appearance on their behalf, and for his settled presence with them.
BUT LET THE RIGHTEOUS BE GLAD - That is, Let them be prosperous and happy; let them be under thy protecting care, and partake of thy favor. While the wicked are driven away like smoke, let the righteo...
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...
LET. Some codices, with five early printed editions, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and let"....
The advent of God brings terror and destruction to His enemies, blessing and joy to His people....
But the righteous shall be glad, shall exult at the presence of God; Yea, they shall rejoice with gladness. _The righteous_are the people of God, viewed in the light of their calling: _the wicked_are...
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...
_BUT LET THE RIGHTEOUS BE GLAD; LET THEM REJOICE BEFORE GOD: YEA, LET THEM EXCEEDINGLY REJOICE._ But let the righteous be glad: let them rejoice before God - literally, 'at or before the face of God,...
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 68:4]_ וְֽ צַדִּיקִ֗ים יִשְׂמְח֣וּ יַֽ֭עַלְצוּ לִ...
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...
(b) But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. (b) He shows that when God declares his power against the wicked, it is for the convenience and salv...
Standing, _Greek: upostasis, "subsistence:" there is no bottom. (Haydock)_...
What a beautiful contrast is here drawn between the righteous and the wicked! And what a blessed thought it is, to consider in whom that righteousness is found, which; from its unchanging nature, must...
3_But the righteous shall be glad _It is here intimated by David, that when God shows himself formidable to the wicked, this is with the design of securing the deliverance of his Church. He would seem...
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...
BUT LET THE RIGHTEOUS BE GLAD,.... At the incarnation of Christ, which is matter of joy to all people that believe in him; as did Zacharias and Elisabeth, who were both righteous, and also Simeon; and...
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. Ver. 3. _But let the righteous be glad_] When he seeth the vengeance, Psalms 58:10 _See Trapp on "_ Psa...
_Let God arise_, &c. As God was in a peculiar manner present in the ark, and as his presence was the great security of the Israelitish nation from the dangers of the wilderness, and the power of their...
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...
But let the righteous be glad, since they, clothed with the righteousness of God, have every reason to rejoice before Him always; LET THEM REJOICE BEFORE GOD, since they can freely stand before His fa...
EXCEEDINGLY REJOICE: _ Heb._ rejoice with gladness...
1-6 None ever hardened his heart against God, and prospered. God is the joy of his people, then let them rejoice when they come before him. He who derives his being from none, but gives being to all,...
Psalms 68:3 righteous H6662 glad H8055 (H8799) rejoice H5970 (H8799) before H6440 God H430 rejoice H7797 ...
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...
_Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered: let them alone that hate Him flee before Him._ A GOOD PRAYER This was what was always said by Moses, when the ark set forward afresh in the wilderness. E...
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...
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...
1 Peter 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:16; Deuteronomy 12:12; Psalms 21:1;...