Psalm 68:8-13

God Shall Scatter His Enemies

8 x the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain,
before God, the One of Sinai,
before God, the God of Israel.
 9 y Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;
you restored your inheritance as it languished;
 10 your flock 1 found a dwelling in it;
in your goodness, O God, you z provided for the needy.

11 The Lord gives a the word;
b the women who announce the news are a great host:
 12 c "The kings of the armies - they flee, they flee!"
The women at home d divide the spoil -
13 though you men lie among e the sheepfolds -
the wings of a dove covered with silver,
its pinions with shimmering gold.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 19:18
    Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
    Judges 5:4
    Lord, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 65:9 - 10
    You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 65:9
    You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
    Psalms 78:20
    He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 33:9
    For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 15:20
    Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
    1 Samuel 18:6
    As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 110:5
    The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
    Numbers 31:8
    They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
    Joshua 10:16
    These five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
    Judges 5:19
    The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.
    Joshua 12:7 - 24
    And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments.
  7. Cross References
    Judges 5:30
    'Have they not found and divided the spoil? - A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?'
  8. Cross References
    Genesis 49:14
    Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.
    Judges 5:16
    Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
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