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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 68:31

Ethiopia. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), for Ethiopians.

stretch out her hands. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), either for bringing presents, as in Psalms 68:29, or for prayer, or for pledging loyalty with an oath.

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See also Psalms 68:31 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 68:31. _ETHIOPIA SHALL SOON STRETCH OUT HER HANDS UNTO GOD._] This verse had its literal fulfilment under Solomon, when Egypt formed an alliance with that king by his marriage with Phara...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    PRINCES SHALL COME OUT OF EGYPT - That is, Shall come and acknowledge the true God. Egypt is referred to here as one of the most prominent of the foreign nations then known; and the idea is, that the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The purpose and sequel of the restoration of Israel is the conversion of the world; and the Psalmist now prays that God will display His strength and subdue all opposition, and sees the noblest of the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Princes_ Or, magnates. LXX πρέσβεις, _ambassadors_. The word occurs here only, and is of doubtful meaning. _shall soon stretch out_&c. R.V., shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God, either in t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    PRINCES SHALL COME OUT OF EGYPT, &C.— Rather, _Let princes come;—Let Ethiopia stretch,_ &c. The word חשׁמנים _chashmanniim,_ rendered _princes,_ signifies a princely person, accompanied by a numerous...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THY GOD HATH COMMANDED THY STRENGTH: STRENGTHEN, O GOD, THAT WHICH THOU HAST WROUGHT FOR US._ -The glorious deliverances vouchsafed to His people, by God dwelling in Zion, give an earnest of the fut...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EGYPT] as Israel's ancient enemy. ETHIOPIA] as one of the remotest of lands. 33, 34 Cp. Deuteronomy 33:26....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    PRINCES. — Or, _magnates._ ETHIOPIA. — Literally, _Cush shall make to run his hands to God,_ an idiom easily intelligible, expressing hasty submission. (32–35) A noble doxology, worthy of the close...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 68:32]_ יֶאֱתָ֣יוּ חַ֭שְׁמַנִּים מִנִּ֣י מִצְרָ֑יִם כּ֥וּשׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE GOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH Psalms 68:26 The constituent parts of the procession are now described, and in these closing verses the triumphal note rings out. It tells of the confidence of Israel in h...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Princes shall come out (b) of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. (b) He prophecies that the Gentiles will come to the true knowledge and worship of God....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Is not this a similar address, from the Father to the Son, to what we meet with, Psalms 45:6, and which the Holy Ghost hath explained Hebrews 1:6 ? And if so, what a glorious view doth it afford of Go...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    31._Princes shall come out of Egypt. _He resumes the strain of thanksgiving, and confirms what he had previously asserted, that kings would come and pay tribute unto God. The examples which he brings...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    PRINCES SHALL COME OUT OF EGYPT,.... The Vulgate Latin and all the Oriental versions render it "ambassadors". This verse is a prophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles, under the names of Egypt and E...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. Ver. 31. _Princes shall come out of Egypt_] The Gentiles shall one day be called, and caused _Deum verum cognoscer...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Princes shall come out of Egypt_ The word חשׁמנים, _chashmannim_, here rendered _princes_, is not found elsewhere in the Scriptures, and therefore its precise meaning is not certainly known. Elias, a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EXALTATION AND REIGN OF MESSIAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Princes shall come out of Egypt, magnates submitting themselves to the rule of the Messiah. ETHIOPIA SHALL SOON STRETCH OUT HER HANDS UNTO GOD, offering tribute to the King of grace....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    29-31 A powerful invitation is given to those that are without, to join the church. Some shall submit from fear; overcome by their consciences, and the checks of Providence, they are brought to make...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EGYPT, ETHIOPIA: he names only these, as the great and ancient enemies of God, and of his people, and as a most wicked, and idolatrous, and incorrigible sort of men; see JEREMIAH 13:23 AMOS 9:7; but b...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 68:31 Envoys H2831 out H857 (H8799) Egypt H4714 Ethiopia H3568 out H7323 (H8686) hands H3027 God...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God._ ETHIOPIA’S APPEAL Ethiopia is a woman who, after the manner of the poets, represents the whole race of the Ethiopians, just as Britannia, in our...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which Thou hast wrought for us._ THE MORAL FORCE OF GOD I. Subjugating men. 1. Commanding kings (Psalms 68:29). 2. Subjugating enemies...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 68:28 The defeat of the Gentile enemies (here described as fierce wild animals) is a good thing. Their greedy and bloody intentions (v. Psalms 68:30) are stopped. As a result of

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:22; Acts 8:27; Isaiah 19:18; Isaiah 45:14; Isaiah 60:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ethiopia — He names these, as the ancient enemies of God, and of his people; but by them he understands all other nations of the like character. Unto God — Begging mercy of him. This prophecy, as also...

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