Psalms 68:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou, O God, didst sendd a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. ”

• Psalms 68:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain - Margin, shake out. Prof. Alexander, “a rain of free gifts.” The Septuagint and the Vulgate render it, “a voluntary or willing rain.” The Syriac, “the ra...

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• Psalms 68:9 - 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 68:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  9. Thou, O God! shalt make a liberal rain to fall (19) upon thine inheritance Mention is made here of the continued course of favor which had been extended to the people from the time wh...

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• Psalms 68:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. Didst send a plentiful rain - גשם נדבות geshem nedaboth, a shower of liberality. I believe t...

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• Psalms 68:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain— What this shower was, is not by all agreed. Sometimes the Israelites were supplied with wells, and at other times God gave them miraculously water from r...

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• Psalms 68:9 - 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 68:9 - 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 68:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou, O God... — The text of these two verses literally runs, A rain of gifts thou shakest out, O God, on thine inheritance, and when exhausted didst refresh it. Thy living creatures dwell therein...

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• Psalms 68:9 - 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 68:9 - 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 68:9 - 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 68:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  What is this plentiful rain, which Jehovah sent upon his inheritance, but Christ himself? He, it was said, should come down like rain upon the mown grass; Psalms 72:6 . And when Jesus comes to a chu...

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• Psalms 68:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain ,.... Not of water literally taken, as when the Israelites passed through the sea, Psalms 77:17 ; or when the thunderings and lightnings were on Mount Sina...

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• Psalms 68:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. Ver. 9. Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain ] Heb. Thou didst speak out a rain of li...

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• Psalms 68:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain , &c. Hebrew, נדבות, גשׁם, geshem nedaboth , a rain of spontaneousness, or liberality. The Seventy render it, βροχην εκουσιον, a spontaneous, voluntary...

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• Psalms 68:9 - 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 68:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Send a plentiful rain; either, 1. In the wilderness; where they oft wanted water, and were by God's extraordinary care supplied with it. Or rather, 2. In the land of Canaan, which he calls God'...

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• Psalms 68:9 - 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 68:9 - 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 68:9 - 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 68:9 - 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 68:9 - 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 68:9 - 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 68:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 11:10-12 ; Deuteronomy 11:14 ; Ezekiel 34:26 ; Psalms 65:9-13 ; Psalms 77:16 ; Psalms 77:17 ; Psalms 78:24-27

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• Psalms 68:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Weary — Dry and thirsty, and parched with excessive heat, and ready to faint for want of rain, Psalms 63:1 .

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