O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
Parallel translations
- WEB God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
- BSB O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, 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 by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
- Judg 5:4LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
- Judg 4:14And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
- Hab 3:12–13Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
- Deut 4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Mic 2:13The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
- Ps 114:1–8When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
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