Psalms 68:24-27

These verses describe a solemn procession of thanksgiving to the Temple. But is it past, present, or future? Delitzsch is right when he says that it is "not the rejoicing over a victory lately won, not the rejoicing over the deliverance at the Red Sea in the days of old, but the rejoicing of Israel when it shall have seen the judicial and redemptive act of its God and King." It is an -ideal" description. The poet's imagination springs forward to the great celebration of the victory described in Psalms 68:21. It rises before his eyes as an actual fact.