Psalm 68:1-11

1 Al Vencedor: de David: Salmo de Canción. Levántese Dios, sean esparcidos sus enemigos, y huyan delante de El los que le aborrecen.

2 Como es lanzado el humo, los lanzarás; como se derrite la cera delante del fuego, así perecerán los impíos delante de Dios.

3 Mas los justos se alegrarán; se gozarán delante de Dios, y saltarán de alegría.

4 Cantad a Dios, cantad salmos a su Nombre; ensalzad al que cabalga sobre los cielos; JAH es su Nombre, y alegraos delante de él.

5 Padre de huérfanos y defensor de viudas, es Dios en la morada de su santuario;

6 el Dios que hace habitar en familia a los solos; que saca a 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 su lluvia ante la presencia de Dios; aquel Sinaí tembló delante de Dios, del Dios de Israel.

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

10 Tu compañía estaba en ella; por tu bondad, oh Dios, has provisto al pobre.

11 El Señor dará palabra; de los evangelizadores habrá grande ejército.

Psalm 68:1-11 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.