Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
This is a Psalm-song (see on Psalms 30:1, title), perhaps suggested by David's victories, which secured his throne and gave rest to the nation. In general terms, the judgment of God on the wicked, and the equity and goodness of His government to the pious, are celebrated. The sentiment is illustrated by examples of God's dealings, cited from the Jewish history and related in highly poetical terms. Hence the writer intimates an expectation of equal and even greater triumphs and summons all nations to unite in praises of the God of Israel. The Psalm is evidently typical of the relation which God, in the person of His Son, sustains to the Church (compare Psalms 68:18). (Psa. 68:1-35)
Compare Numbers 10:35; Psalms 1:4; Psalms 22:14, on the figures here used.
before him--as in Psalms 68:2, from His presence, as dreaded; but in Psalms 68:3, in His presence, as under His protection (Psalms 61:7).
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