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Psalms 68:10
10You poured down abundant rain, O God. You sustained Your weary inheritance.
Psalms 68:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
- New International Version (NIV)Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.
- English Standard Version (ESV)your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your congregation dwelt in it; You, O God, provided from Your goodness for the poor.
Context of Psalms 68:10
8O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the desert—Selah— 9the earth shook, the heavens rained at the presence of God —the One of Sinai— at the presence of God, God of Israel. You poured down abundant rain, O God. You sustained Your weary inheritance. 11Your community settled in it. In Your goodness, O God, You provided for the poor. 12The Lord gives the word— a great company of women proclaims the good news.
Read all of Psalms 68Psalms 68:10 word by word
חַיָּתְךָ֥ יָֽשְׁבוּ־בָ֑הּ תָּ֤כִ֥ין בְּטוֹבָתְךָ֖ לֶעָנִ֣י אֱלֹהִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 68:10
- Psalms 74:1A contemplative song of Asaph. Why have You cast us off forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the flock of Your pasture?
- Exodus 19:5Now then, if you listen closely to My voice, and keep My covenant, then you will be My own treasure from among all people, for all the earth is Mine.
- Numbers 16:3They assembled against Moses and Aaron. They said to them, “You’ve gone too far! All the community is holy—all of them—and Adonai is with them! Then why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of Adonai?”
- 1 Peter 5:3Don’t lord it over those apportioned to you, but become examples to the flock.
- Deuteronomy 26:5“Then you are to respond before Adonai your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as an outsider, few in number. But there he became a great nation—mighty and numerous.
- Deuteronomy 32:8When Elyon gave nations their heritage, when He separated the sons of man, He set boundaries for the people by the number of Bnei-Yisrael.
- 1 Samuel 2:8He raises the helpless from the dust. He lifts the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with nobles, granting them a seat of honor. For the earth’s pillars are Adonai’s, and He has set the world on them.
- Job 5:10Who gives rain to the earth and sends water over the plains.
- Matthew 11:5the blind see and the lame walk, those with tza'arat are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.
- Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things and sent away the rich empty-handed.
Commentaries on Psalms 68:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Thy congregation hath dwelt therein - חיתך chaiyathecha, thy living creature; , Septuagint; animalia, Vulgate; so all the Versions. Does not this refer to the quails that were brought to the camp of the Israelites, and dwelt, as it were, round about it? And was not this, with the manna and the refreshing rock, that goodness which God had provided for the poor - the needy Israelites?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Thy congregation hath dwelt therein - In the land of promise; for the connection requires us to understand it in this manner. The idea of the writer all along pertains to that land, and to the mercy which God had shown to it. After showing by an historical reference what God had done for the people in the wilderness, he returns here, though without expressly mentioning it, to the land of promise, and to what God had done there for his people. The word…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-14Verses 7-14 Fresh mercies should put us in mind of former mercies. If God bring his people into a wilderness, he will be sure to go before them in it, and to bring them out of it. He provided for them, both in the wilderness and in Canaan. The daily manna seems here meant. And it looks to the spiritual provision for God's Israel. The Spirit of grace and the gospel of grace are the plentiful rain, with which God confirms his inheritance, and from which…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-10The earth shook as it does during an earthquake (see Exodus 19:18). the heavens poured down rain: Wells in the desert and rain showers in Canaan provided plenty of water.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-109-10. a plentiful rain--a rain of gifts, as manna and quails.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 68
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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