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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 68:1 Catholic Bible: God rises up and scatters his enemies. Those who hate him run away in defeat. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/psalms/68-1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/psalms/68-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/psalms/68-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/1.htm">Psalms</a> > <a href="/gntd/psalms/68.htm">Chapter 68</a> > Verse 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/67-7.htm" title="Psalm 67:7">◄</a> Psalm 68:1 {67:1} <a href="../psalms/68-2.htm" title="Psalm 68:2">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/psalms/68.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/psalms/68.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />God rises up and scatters his enemies. Those who hate him run away in defeat. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/68.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/psalms/68.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Do something, God! Scatter your hateful enemies. Make them turn and run. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/68.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For the leader. A psalm of David; a song. [2] May God arise; may his enemies be scattered; may those who hate him flee before him. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/psalms/68.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself. [2] Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself. [2] Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face.</p><p class="hdg">A.</p><p class="hdg2">2962 B.C.</p><p class="hdg2">1042 (Title.) This magnificent and truly sublime ode is supposed, with much probability, to have been composed by David, and sung at the removal of the ark from Kirjath-jearim</p><p class="hdg">God arise</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/7-6.htm">Psalm 7:6,7</a> Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast commanded: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/44-26.htm">Psalm 44:26</a> Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/78-65.htm">Psalm 78:65-68</a> And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/132-8.htm">Psalm 132:8,9</a> Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../numbers/10-35.htm">Numbers 10:35</a> And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from before thy face.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/6-41.htm">2 Chronicles 6:41</a> Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation, and thy saints rejoice in good things.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/33-3.htm">Isaiah 33:3</a> At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the lifting up thyself the nations are scattered.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/42-13.htm">Isaiah 42:13,14</a> The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, as a man of war shall he stir up zeal: he shall shout and cry: he shall prevail against his enemies. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/51-9.htm">Isaiah 51:9,10</a> Arise, arise, put on strength, O thou arm of the Lord, arise as in the days of old, in the ancient generations. Hast not thou struck the proud one, and wounded the dragon? . . . </p><p class="hdg">be scattered</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/68-14.htm">Psalm 68:14,30</a> When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall be whited with snow in Selmon. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/59-11.htm">Psalm 59:11</a> God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:</p><p class="hdg2">89:,10</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/41-15.htm">Isaiah 41:15,16</a> I have made thee as a new thrashing wain, with teeth like a saw: thou shalt thrash the mountains, and break them in pieces: and shalt make the hills as chaff. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/5-2.htm">Ezekiel 5:2</a> A third part thou shalt burn with fire in the midst of the city, according to the fulfilling of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a third part, and cut it in pieces with the knife all round about: and the other third part thou shalt scatter in the wind, and I will draw out the sword after them.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/12-14.htm">Ezekiel 12:14,15</a> And all that are about him, his guards, and his troops I will scatter into every wind: and I will draw out the sword after them. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../daniel/2-35.htm">Daniel 2:35</a> Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's threshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.</p><p class="hdg">that hate</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/21-8.htm">Psalm 21:8</a> Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find out all them that hate thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/20-5.htm">Exodus 20:5</a> Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/7-10.htm">Deuteronomy 7:10</a> And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/14-23.htm">John 14:23,24</a> Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will make our abode with him. . . . </p><p class="hdg">before him [heb.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/psalms/68.htm">God's Enemies Are Scattered</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl">Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself. [2] Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face.</span><span class="reftext">2</span>As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/10-35.htm">Numbers 10:35</a></span><br />And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from before thy face.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/12-5.htm">Psalm 12:5</a></span><br />By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/89-10.htm">Psalm 89:10</a></span><br />Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/92-9.htm">Psalm 92:9</a></span><br />For behold thy enemies, O Lord, for behold thy enemies shall perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/132-8.htm">Psalm 132:8</a></span><br />Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/46-15.htm">Jeremiah 46:15</a></span><br />Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because the Lord hath overthrown them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/59-4.htm">Arise</a> <a href="/psalms/67-7.htm">Chief</a> <a href="/psalms/67-1.htm">Choirmaster</a> <a href="/psalms/67-7.htm">David</a> <a href="/psalms/67-1.htm">Director</a> <a href="/psalms/66-3.htm">Enemies</a> <a href="/psalms/67-1.htm">Face</a> <a href="/psalms/64-8.htm">Flee</a> <a href="/psalms/60-4.htm">Flight</a> <a href="/psalms/60-12.htm">Foes</a> <a href="/psalms/59-7.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/psalms/66-7.htm">Haters</a> <a href="/psalms/44-10.htm">Hating</a> <a href="/psalms/67-1.htm">Leader</a> <a href="/psalms/67-1.htm">Music</a> <a href="/psalms/67-7.htm">Musician</a> <a href="/psalms/64-1.htm">Overseer</a> <a href="/psalms/67-7.htm">Psalm</a> <a href="/psalms/66-7.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/psalms/60-1.htm">Scattered</a> <a href="/psalms/67-7.htm">Song</a> <a href="/psalms/67-1.htm">Song&Gt</a> <a href="/psalms/66-20.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/73-20.htm">Arise</a> <a href="/psalms/68-35.htm">Chief</a> <a href="/psalms/69-1.htm">Choirmaster</a> <a href="/psalms/68-35.htm">David</a> <a href="/psalms/69-1.htm">Director</a> <a href="/psalms/68-21.htm">Enemies</a> <a href="/psalms/69-7.htm">Face</a> <a href="/psalms/68-12.htm">Flee</a> <a href="/psalms/68-12.htm">Flight</a> <a href="/psalms/68-23.htm">Foes</a> <a href="/psalms/69-4.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/psalms/68-21.htm">Haters</a> <a href="/psalms/69-4.htm">Hating</a> <a href="/psalms/70-1.htm">Leader</a> <a href="/psalms/68-25.htm">Music</a> <a href="/psalms/68-35.htm">Musician</a> <a href="/psalms/69-1.htm">Overseer</a> <a href="/psalms/68-35.htm">Psalm</a> <a href="/psalms/74-22.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/psalms/68-14.htm">Scattered</a> <a href="/psalms/68-4.htm">Song</a> <a href="/psalms/75-1.htm">Song&Gt</a> <a href="/psalms/68-6.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/psalms/68-1.htm">Psalm 68:1 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: A And arise be before David director enemies flee foes For God hate him his Let May music of psalm scattered song the those who<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/psalms/68-1.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 68:1 For the Chief Musician (Psalm Ps Psa.) 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