Latest / Pastor John Piper's answers / Psalm_068
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Psalm sixty eight for the Chief Musician, a psalm by David,
- 0:07Speaker 1: a song. Let God arise, Let his enemies be scattered.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Let them who hate him also flee before him. As
- 0:15Speaker 1: smoke is driven away. So drive them away as wax
- 0:19Speaker 1: melts before the fire. So let the wicked perish at
- 0:22Speaker 1: the presence of God. But let the righteous be glad.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
- 0:30Speaker 1: Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Extol him
- 0:34Speaker 1: who rides on the clouds, to ya his name. Rejoice
- 0:38Speaker 1: before him. A father of the fatherless and a defender
- 0:41Speaker 1: of the widows. Is God. In his holy habitation. God
- 0:45Speaker 1: sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners
- 0:48Speaker 1: with singing. But the rebellious dwell in a sun's scorched land. God,
- 0:53Speaker 1: when you went forth before your people, when you march
- 0:56Speaker 1: through the wilderness, the earth trembled, the sky also poured down.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Now reign at the presence of the God of Sinai,
- 1:02Speaker 1: at the presence of God, the God of Israel. You,
- 1:06Speaker 1: God sent a plentiful reign. You confirmed your inheritance. When
- 1:09Speaker 1: it was weary. Your congregation lived therein you God prepared
- 1:14Speaker 1: your goodness for the poor. The Lord announced the word.
- 1:18Speaker 1: The ones who proclaim it are a great company. Kings
- 1:21Speaker 1: of armies flee, They flee. She who waits at home
- 1:24Speaker 1: defies to spoil while you sleep among the camp fires.
- 1:29Speaker 1: The wings of a dove sheathed with silver. Her feathers
- 1:32Speaker 1: was shining gold. When the Almighty scattered kings in her.
- 1:36Speaker 1: It snowed on Zalmun. The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.
- 1:41Speaker 1: The mountains of Bashan are rugged. Why do you look
- 1:44Speaker 1: an envy? You rugged mountains at the mountain where God
- 1:47Speaker 1: chooses to reign. Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever. The
- 1:52Speaker 1: chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.
- 1:56Speaker 1: The Lord is among them. From Sinai into the sanctuary.
- 2:00Speaker 1: You have ascended on high. You have led away captives.
- 2:04Speaker 1: You have received gifts among men, Yes, among the rebellious.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Also that yea God might dwell there. Blessed be the
- 2:12Speaker 1: Lord who daily bears our burdens. Even the God who
- 2:15Speaker 1: is our salvation. God is to us a god of deliverance.
- 2:19Speaker 1: To Yahweh, the Lord belongs. Escape from death. But God
- 2:23Speaker 1: will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy
- 2:26Speaker 1: scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
- 2:30Speaker 1: The Lord said, I will bring you again from Bashan.
- 2:33Speaker 1: I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,
- 2:36Speaker 1: that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,
- 2:39Speaker 1: that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion
- 2:42Speaker 1: from your enemies. They have seen your processions God, even
- 2:46Speaker 1: the processions of my God, my King. Into the sanctuary.
- 2:50Speaker 1: The singers went before, the minstrels followed after in the
- 2:54Speaker 1: midst of the ladies, playing with tambourines. Bless God. In
- 2:58Speaker 1: the congregations, even the Lord. In the assembly of Israel.
- 3:02Speaker 1: There is Little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah,
- 3:05Speaker 1: their council, the princes of Zebealon, and the princes of Naphthalai.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Your God has commended your strength strength in God, that
- 3:14Speaker 1: which you have done for us because of your temple
- 3:17Speaker 1: at Jerusalem. Kings shall bring presents to you. Rebuke the
- 3:20Speaker 1: wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls,
- 3:24Speaker 1: with the calves of the peoples being humbled. May it
- 3:27Speaker 1: bring bars of silver scatter the nations that delight in war.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to
- 3:35Speaker 1: stretch out her hands to God. Sing to God, you
- 3:38Speaker 1: kingdoms of the earth, Sing praises to the Lord, to
- 3:42Speaker 1: him who rides on the heaven of heavens which are
- 3:44Speaker 1: of old. Behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Ascribe strength to God. His excellency is over Israel. His
- 3:53Speaker 1: strength is in the skies. You are awesome God in
- 3:56Speaker 1: your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Did his people praise be to God.