Psalms 68:1

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the music director; by David, a psalm, a song. God springs into action! His enemies scatter; his adversaries run from him.

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  • Num 10:35 : 35 And when the ark traveled, Moses would say,“Rise up, O LORD! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!”
  • Isa 33:3 : 3 The nations run away when they hear a loud noise; the nations scatter when you spring into action!
  • Ps 89:10 : 10 You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
  • Ps 132:8-9 : 8 Ascend, O LORD, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! 9 May your priests be clothed with integrity! May your loyal followers shout for joy!
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 “Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw. 16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 42:13-14 : 13 The LORD emerges like a hero, like a warrior he inspires himself for battle; he shouts, yes, he yells, he shows his enemies his power. 14 “I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.
  • Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the LORD! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster? 10 Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?
  • Ezek 5:2 : 2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.
  • Ezek 12:14-15 : 14 All his retinue– his attendants and his troops– I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them. 15 “Then they will know that I am the LORD when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.
  • Dan 2:35 : 35 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.
  • John 14:23-24 : 23 Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. 24 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
  • Deut 7:10 : 10 but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!
  • 2 Chr 6:41 : 41 Now ascend, O LORD God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! May your priests, O LORD God, experience your deliverance! May your loyal followers rejoice in the prosperity you give!
  • Ps 7:6-7 : 6 Stand up angrily, LORD! Rise up with raging fury against my enemies! Wake up for my sake and execute the judgment you have decreed for them! 7 The countries are assembled all around you; take once more your rightful place over them!
  • Ps 21:8 : 8 You prevail over all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you.
  • Ps 44:26 : 26 Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love!
  • Ps 59:11 : 11 Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!
  • Ps 68:14 : 14 When the Sovereign One scatters kings, let it snow on Zalmon!
  • Ps 68:30 : 30 Sound your battle cry against the wild beast of the reeds, and the nations that assemble like a herd of calves led by bulls! They humble themselves and offer gold and silver as tribute. God scatters the nations that like to do battle.
  • Ps 78:65-68 : 65 But then the Lord awoke from his sleep; he was like a warrior in a drunken rage. 66 He drove his enemies back; he made them a permanent target for insults. 67 He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim. 68 He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.

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