O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
Parallel translations
- WEB God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
- KJV O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
- NKJV O God, when You went out before Your people, When You marched through the wilderness, Selah
- NASB ¶God, when You went forth before Your people, When You marched through the desert, Selah
- NLT O God, when you led your people out from Egypt, when you marched through the dry wasteland, Interlude
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Quick answer
David recalls God going before His people through the wilderness. It remembers God's leading presence in the Exodus journey.
Overview
The psalmist looks back to God marching out before Israel and leading them through the desert, pausing with 'Selah.' God's presence guided and accompanied His people in their pilgrimage. This foreshadows the Lord who goes before His people still, leading them through life to glory.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Exod 13:21And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
- Judg 5:4O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
- Judg 4:14Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
- Hab 3:12–13You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
- Deut 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Mic 2:13One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.
- Ps 114:1–8When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
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