Psalms 68:7

7 God, you led your people out. You marched through a dry and empty land. "Selah"

Psalms 68:7 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 68:7

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people
In the pillar of cloud, and in the pillar of fire, as the Targum adds; and this divine Person was the Son of God, the Angel of his presence, in whom his name was, even his name JAH or Jehovah before mentioned;

when thou didst march through the wilderness;
at the head of the Israelites, leading, guiding, and directing them; providing for them all things necessary, and protecting them against their enemies. And so Christ goes before his people, as they pass through the wilderness of this world; and does the like good offices for them, until he, as the great Captain of their salvation, brings them safe to glory: for what is here said is taken notice of as a resemblance of what he now does, or has done, under the Gospel dispensation, to which this psalm belongs; particularly of his marching through the wilderness of the Gentile world, in the ministry of the word by his apostles, wherein he went forth conquering and to conquer.

Selah; on this word, (See Gill on Psalms 3:2).

Psalms 68:7 In-Context

5 God is in his holy temple. He is a father to those whose fathers have died. He takes care of women whose husbands have died.

6 God gives lonely people a family. He sets prisoners free, and they go out singing. But those who refuse to obey him live in a land that is baked by the sun.

7 God, you led your people out. You marched through a dry and empty land. "Selah"

8 The ground shook when you, the God of Sinai, appeared. The heavens poured down rain when you, the God of Israel, appeared.

9 God, you gave us plenty of rain. You renewed your worn-out land.