Psalms 68:1

David prays for God to arise and scatter His enemies. It opens a triumphant psalm celebrating God's victorious march.

Cross-references · 21

• Num 10:35Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
• Isa 51:9–10Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
• Isa 42:13–14The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:
• Ps 89:10You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
• Ps 44:26Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
• Ezek 12:14–15And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.
• Isa 33:3The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.
• Ps 132:8–9Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
• Ps 7:6–7Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
• John 14:23–24Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
• Ps 21:8Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
• 2 Chr 6:41Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.
• Ps 59:11Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
• Ps 68:30Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
• Ps 78:65–68Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
• Isa 41:15–16Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
• Ps 68:14When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon.
• Deut 7:10But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
• Exod 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
• Dan 2:35Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that had struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
• Ezek 5:2When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

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