Psalms 68:7

Easy-to-Read Version

God, you led your people out of Egypt. You marched across the desert. Selah

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
O God, when You went forth before Your people,When You marched through the wasteland, Selah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
O God, when You went forth before Your people, When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But rebelles did inhabite a dry [ground] O Lorde, when thou wentest foorth before the people: when thou wentest through the wyldernesse. Selah.

Darby Translation
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness—(Selah)—

New King James Version
O God, when You went out before Your people, When You marched through the wilderness,Selah

Literal Translation
O God, when You marched before Your people, when You walked on through the wilderness. Selah.

World English Bible
God, when you went forth before your people, When you marched through the wilderness... Selah.

King James Version (1611)
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people; when thou didst march through the wildernes, Selah.

King James Version
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O God, when thou wetest forth before yi people, whe thou wetest thorow ye wildernes.

THE MESSAGE
God, when you took the lead with your people, when you marched out into the wild, Earth shook, sky broke out in a sweat; God was on the march. Even Sinai trembled at the sight of God on the move, at the sight of Israel's God. You pour out rain in buckets, O God; thorn and cactus become an oasis For your people to camp in and enjoy. You set them up in business; they went from rags to riches.

Amplified Bible
O God, when You went out before Your people, When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.

American Standard Version
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, When thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah

Bible in Basic English
O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.)

Update Bible Version
O God, when you went forth before your people, When you marched through the wilderness; Selah.

Webster's Bible Translation
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

New English Translation
O God, when you lead your people into battle, when you march through the desert, (Selah)

Contemporary English Version
You set your people free, and you led them through the desert.

Complete Jewish Bible
God gives homes to those who are alone and leads prisoners out into prosperity. But rebels must live in a parched wasteland.

Geneva Bible (1587)
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people: when thou wentest through the wildernesse, (Selah)

George Lamsa Translation
O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness,

Hebrew Names Version
God, when you went forth before your people, When you marched through the wilderness... Selah.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
God maketh the solitary to dwell in a house; He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity;

New Living Translation
O God, when you led your people out from Egypt, when you marched through the dry wasteland, Interlude

New Life Bible
O God, when You went out before Your people, when You walked through the desert,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou wentest through the wilderness; Pause:

English Revised Version
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah

Berean Standard Bible
O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah

New Revised Standard
O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O God! When thou camest forth before thy people, When thou didst stride through the wilderness, Selah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(67-8) O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert:

Lexham English Bible
O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the desert, Selah

English Standard Version
O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah

New American Standard Bible
God, when You went forth before Your people, When You marched through the desert, Selah

New Century Version
God, you led your people out when you marched through the desert. Selah

Good News Translation
O God, when you led your people, when you marched across the desert,

Christian Standard Bible®
God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the desert, Selah

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, whanne thou yedist out in the siyt of thi puple; whanne thou passidist forth in the desert.

Young's Literal Translation
O God, in Thy going forth before Thy people, In Thy stepping through the wilderness, Selah.

Revised Standard Version
O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness, [Selah]

Contextual Overview

⁷ God, you led your people out of Egypt. You marched across the desert. Selah ⁸ The ground shook and rain poured from the sky when God, the God of Israel, came to Sinai. ⁹ God, you sent the rain to make a tired, old land strong again. ¹⁰ Your people came back to live there, and you provided good things for the poor. ¹¹ My Lord gave the command, and many people went to tell the good news: ¹² "The armies of powerful kings ran away! At home, the women divide the things brought from the battle. ¹³ Those who stayed home will share in the wealth— metal doves with wings covered in silver and feathers sparkling with gold." ¹⁴ God All-Powerful scattered the kings like snow falling on Mount Zalmon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O God: Psalms 114:1-8, Exodus 13:21, Deuteronomy 4:34, Judges 4:14, Habakkuk 3:13

thou didst: Judges 5:4, Micah 2:13, Habakkuk 3:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:18 - mount Sinai Deuteronomy 33:2 - ten thousands Job 37:22 - with Psalms 126:3 - General Habakkuk 3:3 - came Habakkuk 3:10 - mountains

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people,.... In the pillar of cloud, and in the pillar of fire, as the Targum adds; and this divine Person was the Son of God, the Angel of his presence, in whom his name was, even his name JAH or Jehovah before mentioned;

when thou didst march through the wilderness; at the head of the Israelites, leading, guiding, and directing them; providing for them all things necessary, and protecting them against their enemies. And so Christ goes before his people, as they pass through the wilderness of this world; and does the like good offices for them, until he, as the great Captain of their salvation, brings them safe to glory: for what is here said is taken notice of as a resemblance of what he now does, or has done, under the Gospel dispensation, to which this psalm belongs; particularly of his marching through the wilderness of the Gentile world, in the ministry of the word by his apostles, wherein he went forth conquering and to conquer.

Selah; on this word, :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people ... - That is, in conducting them through the desert to the promised land. The statement in regard to the paternal character of God in the previous verses is here illustrated by his guiding his own people, when fleeing from a land of oppression, through the barren desert - and his interpositions there in their behalf. All that had been said of him in the previous verses is here confirmed by the provision which he made for their needs in their perilous journey through the wilderness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 68:7. O God, when thou wentest forth — This and the following verse most manifestly refer to the passage of the Israelites through the wilderness.