Salmos 68:4-14

4 Cantad a Dios, cantad alabanzas a su nombre; abrid paso al que cabalga por los desiertos , cuyo nombre es el SEÑOR; regocijaos delante de El.

5 Padre de los huérfanos y defensor de las viudas es Dios en su santa morada.

6 Dios prepara un hogar para los solitarios; conduce a los cautivos a prosperidad; sólo los rebeldes habitan en una tierra seca.

7 Oh Dios, cuando saliste al frente de tu pueblo, cuando marchaste por el desierto, (Selah)

8 tembló la tierra; también se derramaron los cielos ante la presencia de Dios; el Sinaí mismo tembló delante de Dios, el Dios de Israel.

9 Tú esparciste lluvia abundante, oh Dios, tú fortaleciste tu heredad cuando estaba extenuada.

10 Los de tu pueblo se establecieron en ella; en tu bondad, oh Dios, proveíste para el pobre.

11 El Señor da la palabra; las mujeres que anuncian las buenas nuevas son gran multitud:

12 Los reyes de los ejércitos huyen; sí huyen, y la que se queda en casa repartirá el botín.

13 Cuando os acostáis en los apriscos, sois como alas de paloma cubiertas de plata, y sus plumas de oro resplandeciente.

14 Cuando el Omnipotente dispersó allí a los reyes, nevaba en el monte Salmón.

Salmos 68:4-14 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Posiblemente, los cielos; vase vers. 33
• [b]. Lit., Si