KJV King James Version
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
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Psalm 68:7
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah
WEB World English Bible
God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, When thou didst march through the wilderness; [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
O God, in Thy going forth before Thy people, In Thy stepping through the wilderness, Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 68
4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation.
6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land].
7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: [even] Sinai itself [was moved] at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
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Cross-references
Exodus 13:21And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:Judges 5:4LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.Judges 4:14And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this [is] the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.Habakkuk 3:12-13Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.Micah 2:13The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?Psalm 114:1-8When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
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