Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 68:7
O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, in the pillar of fire, when He led them through the wilderness, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, in the pillar of fire, when He led them through the wilderness, when Thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
Verse Psalms 68:7. _O GOD, WHEN THOU WENTEST FORTH_] This and the following verse most manifestly refer to the passage of the Israelites through the wilderness....
O GOD, WHEN THOU WENTEST FORTH BEFORE THY PEOPLE ... - That is, in conducting them through the desert to the promised land. The statement in regard to the paternal character of God in the previous ver...
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...
WHEN THOU WENTEST FORTH: i.e. from Egypt. The whole deliverance of Israel is here rehearsed. See the sub-scription. For use at the Passover. SELAH. Connecting the first going up of the Ark in the wil...
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...
The Exodus from Egypt and the Entry into Canaan....
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....
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...
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...
8. A free quotation from the Song of Deborah (Judges 5:4). Note again the substitution of 'GOD' for 'Lord.' SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4....
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 68:8]_ אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים בְּ֭ צֵאתְךָ לִ פְנֵ֣י...
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...
(f) O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: (f) He teaches that God's favour belongs specifically to his Church as appears by their wond...
_For me. If I rise not again, my disciples will take me for a mere man. If the captivity continue much longer, many will despair, ver. 11. (Calmet) --- Suffer not the weak to be scandalized in my pass...
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...
7_O God! when thou wentest forth before thy people, etc. _The Psalmist now proceeds to show that the Divine goodness is principally displayed in the Church, which God has selected as the great theater...
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...
O GOD, WHEN THOU WENTEST FORTH BEFORE THY PEOPLE,.... In the pillar of cloud, and in the pillar of fire, as the Targum adds; and this divine Person was the Son of God, the Angel of his presence, in wh...
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: Ver. 7. _O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people_] Here the former benefits of God to h...
_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...
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...
In the cloudy pillar, as their Captain leading them out of Egypt....
Psalms 68:7 God H430 out H3318 (H8800) before H6440 people H5971 marched H6805 (H8800) wilderness H3452 Selah...
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 4:34; Exodus 13:21; Habakkuk 3:12; Habakkuk 3:13; Judges
Wentest — In the cloudy pillar, as their captain leading them up out of Egypt....