Psalms 68:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: ”

• Psalms 68:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 previou...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (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 won...

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• Psalms 68:7 - 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 a...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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 th...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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 grea...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: O God, when thou wentest forth - This and the following verse most manifestly refer to the passa...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 sus...

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• Psalms 68:7 - 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...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 68:1-35 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 e...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Leader of His People Psalms 68:1-11 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 acq...

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• Psalms 68:7 - 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...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 da...

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• Psalms 68:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 68:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Thankful Praises to God; Mercies Recollected.       7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  In the cloudy pillar, as their Captain leading them out of Egypt.

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• Psalms 68:7 - 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 occ...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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 s...

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• Psalms 68:7 - 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 burst...

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• Psalms 68:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 68:7-8 ). As a rule,...

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• Psalms 68:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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,...

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• Psalms 68:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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 plac...

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• Psalms 68:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 4:34 ; Exodus 13:21 ; Habakkuk 3:12 ; Habakkuk 3:13 ; Judges 4:14 ; Judges 5:4 ; Micah 2:13 ; Psalms 114:1-8

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• Psalms 68:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Wentest — In the cloudy pillar, as their captain leading them up out of Egypt.

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