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Psalms 68:1-3
The advent of God brings terror and destruction to His enemies, blessing and joy to His people.
The advent of God brings terror and destruction to His enemies, blessing and joy to His people.
PSALM LXVIII _The psalmist calls upon God to arise, bless his people, and_ _scatter his enemies_, 1-3; _exhorts them to praise him for has greatness, tenderness,_ _compassion, and judgments_, 4-6;...
LET GOD ARISE - See the notes at Psalms 3:7. There is an obvious reterence here to the words used by Moses on the removal of the ark in Numbers 10:35. The same language was also employed by Solomon wh...
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...
TITLE. PSALM. Hebrew. _mizmor._ App-65. SONG. Hebrew. _shir._ It was written originally for use at the going up of the Ark to Zion 951, BC,. Sabbatical year (2Sa. and 1 Chronicles 15. see note on Titl...
_A prayer at the removing of the ark. An exhortation to praise God for his mercies, for his care of the church, and for his great works._ To the chief musician, A Psalm _or_ Song of David. _TITLE._ ש...
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...
_LET GOD ARISE, LET HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED: LET THEM ALSO THAT HATE HIM FLEE BEFORE HIM._ Psalms 68:1.-When God arises, His enemies are scattered like smoke, while the righteous joyfully extol Jah,...
68:1 him. (a-27) See Numbers 10:35 ....
Taken from the invocation of Moses at the moving of the ark (Numbers 10:35), with the change of Lord (_Jehovah_) into God (_Elohim_). 2, 3. THE WICKED.. THE RIGHTEOUS] the heathen and Israel respecti...
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...
LET GOD ARISE. — A reminiscence of the battlecry raised as the ark was advanced at the head of the tribes (Numbers 10:35). For interesting historical associations with this verse, see Gibbon (chap. 58...
לַ † מְנַצֵּ֥חַ לְ דָוִ֗ד מִזְמֹ֥ור שִֽׁיר׃ ...
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...
"To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David." Let God (a) arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. (a) The prophet shows that even though God permits t...
_Changed. A psalm for Christian converts, to remember the passion of Christ; (Challoner) whose sentiments this and the 21st psalm express in the most energetic language. (Berthier) --- It may have bee...
CONTENTS This Psalm is full of gospel from beginning to end, as the authority of God the Holy Ghost fully shows, Ephesians 4:8. It was composed, probably, at David's removing the ark from the house o...
1._God shall arise: his enemies shall be scattered _In this verse the Psalmist intimates, as it were by way of preface, the subject which he proposed to treat in the psalm, and which related to the tr...
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...
LET GOD ARISE,.... Which, as Kimchi observes, is either by way of prayer, or by way of prophecy; and in either way the sense is the same: for, if it is considered as a prayer, it is a prayer of faith...
Psalms 68:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David. » Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. _A Psalm or Song of David_] Made at that ti...
Psa. 68. The bringing up of the ark of God out of the house of Obed-edom, the Gittite, into the city of David, on the top of mount Zion, on which occasion this psalm was penned, was the most remarkabl...
_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...
Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered, the ancient exclamation which signaled the departure of the Ark of the Covenant from a camp in the wilderness, Numbers 10:35, the prayer receiving its real...
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...
BEFORE HIM: _ Heb._ from his face...
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,...
PSALM 68 THE ARGUMENT The occasion of this Psalm seems to have been David's translation of the ark to Zion, which was managed with great solemnity and devotion, and celebrated with some Psalms, and th...
Psalms 68:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) Psalm H4210 David H1732 Song H7892 God H430 arise H6965 (H8799) enemies...
LET GOD ARISE The entire Psalm is pervaded by the joy of Israel in the kingdom, but a stricter order of events begins with verse 18 (Psalms 68:18). This is quoted (Ephesians 4:7) of Christ's ascensio...
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...
2 Chronicles 6:41; Daniel 2:35; Deuteronomy 7:10; Exodus 20:5;...