Psalm 68:1
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Psalm 68
Praise and Thanksgiving
To the leader. Of David. A Psalm. A Song.
1 Let God rise up; let his enemies be scattered;
let those who hate him flee before him.(A)
Numbers 10:35
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35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say,
“Arise, O Lord, let your enemies be scattered
and your foes flee before you.”(A)
Isaiah 51:9-10
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9 Awake, awake, put on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake, as in days of old,
the generations of long ago!
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the dragon?(A)
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way
for the redeemed to cross over?(B)
Isaiah 42:13-14
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13 The Lord goes forth like a soldier;
like a warrior he stirs up his fury;
he cries out; he shouts aloud;
he shows himself mighty against his foes.(A)
14 For a long time I have held my peace;
I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out like a woman in labor;
I will gasp and pant.(B)
Isaiah 33:3
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3 At the sound of tumult, peoples fled;
before your majesty, nations scattered.(A)
Psalm 132:8-9
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8 Rise up, O Lord, and go to your resting place,
you and the ark of your might.(A)
9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness,
and let your faithful shout for joy.(B)
Psalm 44:26
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26 Rise up, come to our help.
Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.(A)
Psalm 89:10
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10 You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.(A)
Psalm 7:6-7
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6 Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God;[a] you have appointed a judgment.(A)
7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
and over it take your seat[b] on high.(B)
Ezekiel 12:14-15
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14 I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword behind them.(A) 15 And they shall know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.(B)
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Psalm 78:65-68
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65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a warrior shouting because of wine.(A)
66 He put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting disgrace.(B)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.(C)
Isaiah 41:15-16
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15 I will make of you a threshing sledge,
sharp, new, and having teeth;
you shall thresh the mountains and crush them,
and you shall make the hills like chaff.(A)
16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
Then you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.(B)
Psalm 68:30
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30 Rebuke the wild animals that live among the reeds,
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.
Trample[a] under foot those who lust after tribute;
scatter the peoples who delight in war.[b](A)
2 Chronicles 6:41
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41 Now rise up, O Lord God, and go to your resting place,
you and the ark of your might.
Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation,
and let your faithful rejoice in your goodness.(A)
Deuteronomy 7:10
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10 and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him.
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John 14:23-24
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23 Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.(A) 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.(B)
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Psalm 68:14
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Footnotes
- 68.14 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Psalm 59:11
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11 Do not kill them, or my people may forget;
make them totter by your power and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.(A)
Psalm 21:8
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8 Your hand will find out all your enemies;
your right hand will find out those who hate you.(A)
Exodus 20:5
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5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me(A)
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Daniel 2:35
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35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were all broken in pieces and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.(A)
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Ezekiel 5:2
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2 One third of the hair you shall burn in the fire inside the city when the days of the siege are completed; one third you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city;[a] and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.(A)
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