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 10:35And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
• Isa 51:9–10Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
• Isa 42:13–14The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
• Ps 89:10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
• Ps 44:26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.
• Ezek 12:14–15And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
• Isa 33:3At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.
• Ps 132:8–9Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
• Ps 7:6–7Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
• John 14:23–24Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
• Ps 21:8Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
• 2 Chr 6:41Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.
• Ps 59:11Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
• Ps 68:30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
• Ps 78:65–68Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
• Isa 41:15–16Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
• Ps 68:14When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
• Deut 7:10And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
• Exod 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
• Dan 2:35Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
• Ezek 5:2Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

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