Salmos 68:5-15

5 Padre de huérfanos y defensor de viudas, Es Dios en la morada de su santuario:

6 El Dios que hace habitar en familia los solos; Que saca á los aprisionados con grillos: Mas los rebeldes habitan en sequedad.

7 Oh Dios, cuando tú saliste delante de tu pueblo, Cuando anduviste por el desierto, (Selah,)

8 La tierra tembló; También destilaron los cielos á la presencia de Dios: Aquel Sinaí tembló delante de Dios, del Dios de Israel.

9 Abundante lluvia esparciste, oh Dios, á tu heredad; Y cuando se cansó, tú la recreaste.

10 Los que son de tu grey han morado en ella: Por tu bondad, oh Dios, has provisto al pobre.

11 El Señor daba palabra: De las evangelizantes había grande ejército.

12 Huyeron, huyeron reyes de ejércitos; Y las que se quedaban en casa partían los despojos.

13 Bien que fuiesteis echados entre los tiestos, Seréis como las alas de la paloma cubierta de plata, Y sus plumas con amarillez de oro.

14 Cuando esparció el Omnipotente los reyes en ella, Emblanquecióse ésta como la nieve en Salmón.

15 Monte de Dios es el monte de Basán; Monte alto el de Basán.

Salmos 68:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, A Psalm [or] Song of David. The Targum makes the argument of this psalm to be the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt, and the giving of the law on Mount Sinai; in which it is followed by many of the Jewish interpreters: but Aben Ezra rejects such an interpretation of it, and thinks that David composed it, concerning the war he had with the uncircumcised nations, the Philistines and others, 2 Samuel 8:1, &c. And so the title of the Syriac version begins, "a psalm of David, when the kings prepared themselves to fight against him:" and Kimchi says it was composed on account of Sennacherib's army coming against Jerusalem, in the times of Hezekiah, and so delivered by David, under a spirit of prophecy concerning that affair; though he owns that some of their writers interpret it of the war of Gog and Magog, in the times of the Messiah they yet expect. But they are much nearer the truth, who take it that it was written on occasion of the ark being brought to the city of David; seeing it begins with much the same words that Moses used when the ark set forward in his times, Numbers 10:35; and the bringing of which was attended with great joy and gladness, 2 Samuel 6:14; such as the righteous are called upon to express in this psalm, Psalm 68:3. And this being a type of Christ, and of his ascending the holy hill of God, may be allowed of; for certain it is that this psalm treats of the coming of Christ, and of blessings by him, and of victory over his enemies; and particularly of his ascension to heaven, as most evidently appears from Ephesians 4:8; and from prophecies in it, concerning the calling of the Gentiles. Wherefore the latter part of the Syriac inscription of it is very pertinent; "also a prophecy concerning the dispensation of the Messiah, and concerning the calling of the Gentiles to the faith." Jarchi interprets Psalm 68:31 of the Messiah.