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Proverbia 68:24
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Obscurentur oculi eorum, ne videant ; et dorsum eorum semper incurva.
Obscurentur oculi eorum, ne videant,
et dorsum eorum semper incurva.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
even: Psalms 24:7-10, Psalms 47:5-7, 2 Samuel 6:12-17, 1 Chronicles 13:8, 1 Chronicles 15:16-24
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 6:15 - with shouting 1 Chronicles 6:32 - they ministered 2 Chronicles 29:28 - And all the congregation 2 Chronicles 30:8 - enter into Psalms 50:2 - Out Psalms 63:2 - in the Psalms 87:7 - As well Song of Solomon 7:5 - the king
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They have seen thy goings, O God,.... In saving his people, and destroying his enemies;
[even] the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary; the walk and conversation of Christ, when he was made flesh, and dwelt among men; his manner of life and deportment; his works and miracles, his sufferings, death, and resurrection from the dead; all which his apostles were eyewitnesses of; as also his going up to heaven, which was visible to angels and men; likewise his progress and victorious expeditions in Judea, and in the Gentile world, by the ministry of the word, in which he went forth conquering, and to conquer; which sense is confirmed by the following words: for Christ, who is God over all, the Lord and God of his people, and King of saints, is here, as throughout the psalm, intended. The Targum interprets it of the path or goings of the divine Majesty upon the sea, which the house of Israel saw.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They have seen thy goings, O God - That is, the lookers on in the solemn procession referred to in Psalms 68:25; or, in other words, Thy goings have been attended by pomp and magnificence, and have been witnessed by multitudes. The word “goings” here refers to the solemn triumphal processions which celebrated the victories achieved by God.
Even the goings of my God, my King - The psalmist here speaks of God as “his” God and “his” King. The idea seems to have suddenly crossed his mind that this great God, so glorious, is “his” God. He exults and rejoices that He whom he adores is such a God; that a God so great and glorious is “his.” So the believer now, when he looks upon the works of God, when he contemplates their vastness, their beauty, and their grandeur, is permitted to feel that the God who made them is “his” God; to find consolation in the thought that his “Father made them all.”
“He looks abroad into the varied field
Of Nature, and, though poor, perhaps, compared
With those whose mansions glitter in his sight,
Calls the delightful scenery all his own.
His are the mountains, and the valleys his,
And the resplendent rivers; - his to enjoy
With a propriety that none can feel
But who, with filial confidence inspired,
Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye,
And smiling say, ‘My Father made them all!’
Are they not his by a peculiar right,
And by an emphasis of interest his,
Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy,
Whose heart with praise, and whose exalted mind
With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love
That plann’d, and built, and still upholds a world
So clothed with beauty for rebellious man?”
task, Book v.
In the sanctuary - Or, “to” the sanctuary; in other words, as the ark was borne to the sanctuary, the place appointed for its rest, for, as above remarked, the psalm seems to have been composed on such an occasion.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 68:24. They have seen thy goings — These kings of the Amorites have seen thy terrible majesty in their discomfiture, and the slaughter of their subjects.